The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart: Life of the author. An essay on the original and nature of government. Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Letters containing an account of the most important transactions that passed in Christendom from 1665 to 1672F.C. and J. Rivington, 1814 |
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Trang 10 - Nor do I know, if men are like sheep, why they need any Government: or if they are like Wolves, how they can suffer it. Nor have I read where the Orders of any State have been agreed on by mutual Contract among great numbers of men, meeting together in that natural state of War; where every man takes himself to have equal right to every thing.
Trang 161 - It is hardly to be imagined, how all the violence and sharpness, which accompanies the differences of religion in other countries, seems to be appeased CHAP.
Trang 284 - THERE is one story of the wars of Rome which I have always very much envied for England. Germanicus was going down at the head of the legions into a dangerous river — on the opposite bank the woods were full of Germans — when...
Trang 459 - —poor Sir John Denham is fallen to the ladies also. He is at many of the meetings at dinners, talks more than ever he did, and is extremely pleased with those that seem willing to hear him, and from that obligation exceedingly praises the Duchess of Monmouth and my Lady Cavendish; if he had not the name of being mad, I believe in most companies he would be thought wittier than ever he was. He seems to have few extravagances besides that of telling stones of himself, which he is always inclined...
Trang 94 - But to discover the Nature of their Government from the first Springs and Motions, it must be taken yet into smaller Pieces, by which it will appear, that each of these Provinces is likewise composed of many little States or Cities, which have several Marks of Sovereign Power within themselves, and are not subject to the Sovereignty of their...
Trang 182 - The others serv'd and rever'd by them; till by the various course of Events in the World, some of these came to grow Rich and Powerful by Industry and Parsimony; And some of the others, Poor by War and by Luxury: Which made the Traders begin to take upon them, and carry it like Gentlemen; and the Gentlemen begin to take a fancy of falling to Trade.
Trang xxii - He seemed to think that things were as they are from all eternity : at least, he thought religion was fit only for the mob. He was a great admirer of the sect of Confucius in China, who were atheists themselves, but left religion to the rabble. He was a corrupter of all that came near him, and he delivered himself up wholly to study ease and pleasure.
Trang 103 - Good, they come after full Debates to easy Resolutions; yielding to the Power of Reason, where it is clear and strong, and suppressing all private Passions or Interests, so as the smaller Part seldom contests, hard or long, what the greater agrees of.
Trang 162 - I believe the force of commerce, alliances, and acquaintance, spreading so far as they do in small circuits, such as the province of Holland, may contribute much to make conversation, and all the offices of common life, so easy, among so different opinions, of which so many several persons are often in every man's eye ; and no man checks or takes offence at faces, or customs, or ceremonies, he sees every day, as at those he hears of in places far distant, and perhaps by partial relations, and comes...
Trang 8 - Eloquence, as it passes for a mark of wisdom ; beauty of goodness, and nobility of valour (which was its original) have likewise ever some effect upon the opinion of the people ; but a very great one, when they are really joined with the qualities they promise or resemble. " There is yet another source from which usually springs greater authority than from all the rest ; which is the opinion of divine favour, or designation of the persons or of the races that govern.