 Love of country, in any high or generous sense, in any other than an almost animal sense, or mere habit, has little importance attached to it in such reforms, or in the opposition shown them. Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government...  The Dublin Review - Página 525editado por - 1876Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1829 - 566 páginas
...opposition shown them. Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite...is emphatically a machine : to the discontented, a ' taxing-machine ;' to the contented, a ' machine for securing pro' perty.' Its duties and its faults... | |
 | 1829 - 436 páginas
...opposition shown them. These are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these ; and, except a keen eye and appetite...emphatically a machine : • — to the discontented, a " taxing-machine ;" to the contented, a *' machine for securing property." Its duties and its faults... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 520 páginas
...opposition shown them. Men are to be guided only by their selfinleresls. Good government is a good balancing of these, and, except a keen eye and appetite...is emphatically a machine : to the discontented, a " taxingmachine ;" to the contented, a " machine for securing property." Its duties and its faults... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 páginas
...discontented, a " laxingrr*:hine ;" to the contented, a " machine for securing properly." Its Jutland its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish constable. Thus il is by the mere condition of the machine; by preserving it untouched, or else by-reconstructing... | |
 | 1835 - 916 páginas
...opposition shown them. Men are to be guided only by their selfinterests. Good government is a good I l) {6 x > 2 QaSA H _ B F O \ ; xL ( k x % ȷn3 a / B n DO virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine : to the discontented, a " taxingmachine;"... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 468 páginas
...opposition shown them. Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these ; and, except a keen eye and appetite...those of a father, but of an active parish constable. Thus it is by the mere condition of the machine ; by preserving it untouched, or else by re-constructing... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1891 - 580 páginas
...language of Carlyle, ' Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these, and, except a keen eye and appetite...the contented " a machine for securing property." '§ The force of numbers, disguised as public opinion, and holding no reference to the moral law, is,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 páginas
...opposition shown them. Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these ; and, except a keen eye and appetite...those of a father, but of an active parish constable. Thus it is by the mere condition of the machine ; by preserving it untouched, or else by re-constructing... | |
 | 1852 - 590 páginas
...opposition shown them. Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these ; and, except a keen eye and appetite...those of a father, but of an active parish constable. Thus it is by the mere condition of the machine ; by preserving it untouched, or else by re-constructing... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 páginas
...opposition shown them. Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen 'eye and appetite...is emphatically a machine : to the discontented, a u taxing machine;" to the contented, a "machine for securing property." Its duties and its faults are... | |
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