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I am well aware, that men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.
An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791)
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feeling; none when they are under the influence of imagination.
An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791)
Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.
An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791)
So far as it has gone, it probably is the most pure and defecated publick good which ever has been conferred on mankind.
An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791)
...he always firmly believed that they were purely on the defensive in that rebellion. He considered the Americans as standing at that time, and in that controversy, in the same relation to England, as England did to king James the Second, in 1688.
An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791)