A Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics, Volume 2J. W. Parker and Son, 1852 - Political science |
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... representing the ordinary and prevalent state of things , but in individual action , such general presumptions must , where it is possible , be corrected by positive testimony as to the actual facts of the case . For example , in ...
... representing the ordinary and prevalent state of things , but in individual action , such general presumptions must , where it is possible , be corrected by positive testimony as to the actual facts of the case . For example , in ...
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... represent the majority of cases , and may be accepted as true until , in any given instance , they are dis- covered to be false . § 6 The most common form of the universal proposition respecting the practical operation of government ...
... represent the majority of cases , and may be accepted as true until , in any given instance , they are dis- covered to be false . § 6 The most common form of the universal proposition respecting the practical operation of government ...
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... represent an ideal of his own - they are , in his view , a concentrated extract of the legislative experience of mankind . In characterizing republics , he says that appointment by lot is of the nature of democracy - election by votes ...
... represent an ideal of his own - they are , in his view , a concentrated extract of the legislative experience of mankind . In characterizing republics , he says that appointment by lot is of the nature of democracy - election by votes ...
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... represented by the number 500,000 , then we must assume not only that one ruler , 500 rulers , and 250,001 rulers would , in similar circumstances , always act differently from each other , but that the successive persons in the ...
... represented by the number 500,000 , then we must assume not only that one ruler , 500 rulers , and 250,001 rulers would , in similar circumstances , always act differently from each other , but that the successive persons in the ...
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... represents the prevailing character , and admits of a general expression . We may be unable to predicate any invariable and universal tendency of a form of government , just as we may be unable to say that all men live a certain number ...
... represents the prevailing character , and admits of a general expression . We may be unable to predicate any invariable and universal tendency of a form of government , just as we may be unable to say that all men live a certain number ...
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Page 40 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 73 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 211 - The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonas ; and, behold , a greater than Jonas is here.
Page 197 - It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit. And those things which have long gone together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves: whereas new things piece not so well* but though they help by their utility, yet they trouble by their inconformity.
Page 315 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 196 - Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience?
Page 135 - God had endowed his Majesty with excellent science and great endowments of nature, but his Majesty was not learned in the laws of his realm of England ; and causes which concern the life or inheritance or goods or fortunes of his subjects are not to be decided by natural reason but by the artificial reason and judgment of law, which law is an act which requires long study and experience before that a man can attain to the cognizance of it...
Page 433 - I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences.
Page 286 - No more shall nation against nation rise, Nor ardent warriors meet, with hateful eyes ; Nor fields with gleaming steel be covered o'er ; The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more; But useless lances into scythes shall bend, And the broad falchion in a ploughshare end.
Page 209 - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.