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Civil
Which after all is best off upon the whole?
Cicero, had the question been put to him in his
Tusculan villa would have been clearly on
the Frenchman's side.
The name of person liberty having passed been transferred
from the personal sense to the political,
political liberty seems to have been regarded as
a security for personal: it having been taken for
granted it seems that in proportion to the
share a man had of political liberty was the
share he had of share he would be likely to
maintain of personal liberty. Is the connection
between the two species of liberty a accessory one? so close an one?
Look to France in one This is a question of probability
to be calculated from experience. Look to
antient Athens, and modern France, on one hand –
look to China antient or modern or to Denmark or to ci-devant France on the other.
At the At the speak mention of liberty every man conceives it
to be his right, and many a man conceives it to be a his
duty to fall into a passion.
Liberty therefore not being more fit than other
words in some of the instances in which it has been used, and not
so fit in others, the less the use that is made of it, the
better. I would no more use the word liberty in my
conversation when I could get another that would answer
the purpose, than I would brandy in my diet, if my physician
did not order me: both cloud the understanding
and which they inflame the passions.
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