1765 · Skopia

Showing 12 quotes from 1765

Treatise · Legal writing

The king, moreover, is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong: he can never mean to do an improper thing: in him is no folly or weakness.

William Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England · 1765

★ 5.3

Dissertation · Newspaper · Political literature

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

1765

★ 3.8

Treatise · Legal writing

Man was formed for society.

William Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England · 1765

★ 3.8

Dissertation · Newspaper · Political literature

The jaws of power are always opened to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible to destroy, the freedom of thinking, speaking and writing.

1765

★ 3.6

Dissertation · Newspaper · Political literature

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right... and a desire to know-but besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded, and envied kind of knowledge. I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

1765

★ 3.6

How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!

Oliver Goldsmith

1765

★ 3.6

Treatise · Legal writing

Whence it is that in our law the goodness of a custom depends upon its having been used time out of mind; or, in the solemnity of our legal phrase, time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

William Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England · 1765

★ 3.6

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Lord Chesterfield

1765

★ 3.5

Treatise · Legal writing

That the king can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

William Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England · 1765

★ 2.0

Dissertation · Newspaper

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

1765

★ 1.9

A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad.

Laurence Sterne

Tristram Shandy · 1765

★ 1.9

Play · Tragic play

The more foreigners I saw, the more I loved my homeland.

Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy

1765

★ 1.9