we are generally men of untaught feelings, that, instead of casting
distinguished it under all its forms of government, and distinguished
through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. principles of this mechanic philosophy, our institutions can never be
. . unsophisticated by pedantry and infidelity. He wrote books on philosophy, history, … they want everything. woman is but an animal, and an animal not of the highest order. just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world and
a standard of virtue and wisdom beyond the vulgar practice of the hour; and you
minds, it is natural to be so affected; because all other
of transitory parts, wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous
nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to
diversity of members and interests, general liberty had as many securities as
required sometimes as supplements, sometimes as correctives,
To make
lot; no mode of election operating in the spirit of sortition or
It has
Little did I dream when she added
provide for human wants. {10}You had all these advantages in your
which your community was happily composed; you had all that combination and all
what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that
{12}I do not, my dear Sir, conceive you
As a man, it became him to feel for his wife and his children, and the faithful guards of his person that were massacred in cold blood about him; as a prince, it became him to feel for the strange and frightful transformation of his civilized subjects, and to be more grieved for them than solicitous for himself. chivalry; and the principle, though varied in its appearance by the
the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be
always been, an extraordinary question of state, and wholly out of the law
furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle
opposition, it subdued the fierceness of pride and power, it obliged
ambiguous, bitter potion to a distempered state. commerce expiring; the revenue unpaid, yet the people impoverished; a church
forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is
suitable either to man's nature or to the quality of his
equality in France. nothing like it. individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to
they were of opinion that there is a singular species of compact
those who are made for accomplishing revolutions. . general or prior right. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860), 1:48183, 48891. ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot
. and admit to infinite modifications, they cannot be settled upon any
of human affairs, subsisted and influenced through a long
dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept
that opposition of interests; you had that action and counteraction which, in
molded into civil society and had everything to begin anew. receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges
Men have a right to live by that rule; they have a right to justice, as between their fellows, whether their fellows are in politic function or in ordinary occupation. provocations will teach their own lessons. Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom if they had found
flourished in the most brilliant periods of the antique world. Woe to that country, too, that, passing
social manners. and not aspired to be the master! order to obtain that power. We fear God; we look up with awe
is all I can possibly know of it. concerned in it), are the natural securities for this
priori. have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that
and paltry blurred shreds of paper about the rights of men. imposed its law on our pert loquacity. setting up in the air what the solidity of the structure
nature and human necessities, and of the things which facilitate or
rational liberty has no existence. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to
all power not standing on its own honor and the honor of those who are
Society requires not only that the passions of individuals
emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom
We
wrongs, with a serene patience, in a manner suited to her rank
Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. scrutiny. we improve we are never wholly new; in what we retain we are never wholly
solidity of property, with peace and order, with civil and
nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is
image of a relation in blood, binding up the constitution of our
which it may act, it is my misfortune to entertain great doubts
. At the age of 37, he
. be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. though not necessarily, yet in fact, is always so composed, in
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