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The whole argument is nothing but Mandeville's doctrine of 'private vices, public benefits. See post, April 15, 1778. See ante, iii. 24. Savage observed that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politicks, and from politicks to obscenity. This passage is a curious comment on Pope's lines on Sir Robert
I have, hitherto, sir, regarded it as a principle equally true in politicks as in philosophy, that nothing can act when it does not exist; and I did not suspect that a position so evident would ever stand in need of a proof or illustration.
But by quitting the Country, they fix'd a legal Period to their Obedience, he having deserted their Protection, and Defence, and openly laid down the Administration. But as these sort of Politicks cannot be decided by us, unless we know the Constitutions of those Lunar Regions, so we cannot pretend to make a Decision of what might, or might not have happen'd.
He knew that our negotiators would interest us in the affairs of the whole earth, and that no state could either rise or decline in power, either extend or lose its dominions, without affecting politicks, and influencing our councils.
But the Conspirators willing to make a sure game of it, and not thinking the King, or all his Counsellors would drive on so fast as they would have them, tho' they had already made a fair progress for the Time, resolv'd to play home, and accordingly they persuade their Prince, that they will not only submit to his Arbitrary Will, in Matters of State, and Government, but in Matters of Religion; and in order to carry this Jest on, one of the heads of their Politicks, and a Person of great Estem for his Abilities in Matters of State, being without question one of the ablest Heads of all the Solunarian Nobility, pretended to be converted, and turn'd Abrogratzian.
I was to teach Civil and Scotch law ; Burke, politicks and eloquence; Garrick, the art of publick speaking; Langton was to be our Grecian , Colman our Latin professor ; Nugent to teach physick ; Lord Charlemont, modern history ; Beauclerk, natural philosophy ; Vesey, Irish antiquities, or Celtick learning ; Jones, Oriental learning ; Goldsmith, poetry and ancient history; Chamier, commercial politicks ; Reynolds, painting, and the arts which have beauty for their object; Chambers, the law of England . Dr.
If due attention were paid to this observation, there would be more virtue, even in politicks. What Dr. Johnson justly condemned, has, I am sorry to say, greatly increased in the present reign.
Otherwise, when a state orator has hit the precise age to a minute hid his Bambino in his mantle so cunningly that no mortal could smell it and produced it so critically, that no soul could say, it came in by head and shoulders Oh Sirs! it has done wonders It has open'd the sluices, and turn'd the brains, and shook the principles, and unhinged the politicks of half a nation.
This morning the subject of politicks was introduced. JOHNSON. 'Pulteney was as paltry a fellow as could be . He was a Whig, who pretended to be honest; and you know it is ridiculous for a Whig to pretend to be honest. He cannot hold it out . He called Mr.
In the second place, he has very extensive reading; not, perhaps, what is properly called learning, but history, politicks, and, in short, that popular knowledge which makes a man very useful. In the third place, he has learned much by what is called the vox viva. He talks with a great many people.
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