The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, Volume 6Little, Brown, 1851 - Presidents |
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... enemies , and of addressing themselves wholly to the democratical party , because they alone were their friends ; at least there appears no other hypothesis on which to account for the crude conceptions of Milton and Nedham . The latter ...
... enemies , and of addressing themselves wholly to the democratical party , because they alone were their friends ; at least there appears no other hypothesis on which to account for the crude conceptions of Milton and Nedham . The latter ...
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... enemies derived from their misunderstandings , and the ease with which , if united , they might concert among ... enemy . The other example , of Augustus , Lepidus NEDHAM . 11.
... enemies derived from their misunderstandings , and the ease with which , if united , they might concert among ... enemy . The other example , of Augustus , Lepidus NEDHAM . 11.
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... enemy . The other example , of Augustus , Lepidus , and An- tony , is equally unfortunate . Both are demonstrations that the people did think of usurping others ' rights , and that they did not mind any way to preserve their own . The ...
... enemy . The other example , of Augustus , Lepidus , and An- tony , is equally unfortunate . Both are demonstrations that the people did think of usurping others ' rights , and that they did not mind any way to preserve their own . The ...
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... enemies than to please citizens . * This mighty aristo- cratic grew so unpopular , that one of the tribunes accused him before the people of applying part of the spoils of Veii to his own use ; and finding , upon consulting his friends ...
... enemies than to please citizens . * This mighty aristo- cratic grew so unpopular , that one of the tribunes accused him before the people of applying part of the spoils of Veii to his own use ; and finding , upon consulting his friends ...
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... enemy who had already laid hold of the battlement , and whose fall from the precipice carried down seve- ral others who followed him . With stones and darts the Romans precipitated all the rest to the bottom of the rock . Manlius the ...
... enemy who had already laid hold of the battlement , and whose fall from the precipice carried down seve- ral others who followed him . With stones and darts the Romans precipitated all the rest to the bottom of the rock . Manlius the ...
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Page 266 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows ; each thing meets In mere oppugnancy : the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores And make a sop of all this solid globe : Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Page 264 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 199 - If you thus behave yourselves, and so become a terror to evil doers and a praise to them that do well...
Page 274 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...
Page 266 - Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite ; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.
Page 517 - In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel ; And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Page 168 - The instruction of the people in every kind of knowledge that can be of use to them in the practice of their moral duties as men, citizens, and Christians, and of their political and civil duties as members of society and freemen, ought to be the care of the public, and of all who have any share in the conduct of its affairs, in a manner that never yet has been practiced in any age or nation.
Page 265 - In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast : keep, then, the path...
Page 233 - The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns, more or less, and glows, in every heart : The proud, to gain it, toils on toils endure ; The modest shun it, but to make it sure.
Page 266 - O, when degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick. How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows...