The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 76A. Constable, 1843 |
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Page 12
... reason , experience , prudence , are alike blinded , and ' the very persons who are to perish in the storm are the first to raise its fury .'- ( i . 149. ) This is a good specimen of the superficial verbiage which formed the chorus of ...
... reason , experience , prudence , are alike blinded , and ' the very persons who are to perish in the storm are the first to raise its fury .'- ( i . 149. ) This is a good specimen of the superficial verbiage which formed the chorus of ...
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... reasons for thinking that , if no other obstacles existed , it would be unjust to deprive the poorer classes of all political influence ; merely on the ground that their interest in the welfare of the state is insufficient to withhold ...
... reasons for thinking that , if no other obstacles existed , it would be unjust to deprive the poorer classes of all political influence ; merely on the ground that their interest in the welfare of the state is insufficient to withhold ...
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... reason to complain of the mediocrity of their statesmen . Such ministers as Pericles , Washington , and Carnot , were surely worthy of the confidence of any aristocratic government ' on earth . is so . But , however able might be the ...
... reason to complain of the mediocrity of their statesmen . Such ministers as Pericles , Washington , and Carnot , were surely worthy of the confidence of any aristocratic government ' on earth . is so . But , however able might be the ...
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... reason and religion ; and the only result which we expect , is the communication of those qualities to the many , which our own observation has shown us in the few . Mr Alison tells us that a good democracy is a dream , because men can ...
... reason and religion ; and the only result which we expect , is the communication of those qualities to the many , which our own observation has shown us in the few . Mr Alison tells us that a good democracy is a dream , because men can ...
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... reason , and revelation deny that man is perfectible , do they not combine to assert that he is improvable - improvable to a degree which those who have only known him in his lowest state can scarcely imagine ? All we venture to hope is ...
... reason , and revelation deny that man is perfectible , do they not combine to assert that he is improvable - improvable to a degree which those who have only known him in his lowest state can scarcely imagine ? All we venture to hope is ...
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