Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) [ Concepts ]
… a bishop of Winchester in possession of ten thousand pounds a year, and cannot conceive why it is in worse hands than estates to the like amount in the hands of this earl or that squire; although it may be true that so many dogs and horses … on the whole will gain by a liberty without which virtue cannot exist. When once the commonwealth has established the estates of the Church as property, it can consistently hear nothing of the more or the less. Too much and too little are … them, (and in us, too, however we may like it,) but in the thing must be varied, when the relation of that body to the state is altered,—when manners, when modes of life, when indeed the whole order of human affairs, has undergone a total …
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