Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event, in a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in ParisApollo Press, 1814 - 246 Seiten |
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... manner in which we enjoy and transmit our pro- perty and our lives . The institutions of policy , the goods of fortune , the gifts of Providence , are handed down , to us and from us , in the same course and order . Our poli- tical ...
... manner in which we enjoy and transmit our pro- perty and our lives . The institutions of policy , the goods of fortune , the gifts of Providence , are handed down , to us and from us , in the same course and order . Our poli- tical ...
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... manner with the tiers etat in France , would this domi nion of chicane be borne with patience , or even conceived without horror ? God forbid I should insinuate any thing derogatory to that profession , which is another priesthood ...
... manner with the tiers etat in France , would this domi nion of chicane be borne with patience , or even conceived without horror ? God forbid I should insinuate any thing derogatory to that profession , which is another priesthood ...
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... manner suited to her rank and race , and becoming the offspring of a sovereign distinguished for her piety and her courage ; that like her she has lofty sentiments ; that she feels with the dignity of a Roman matron ; that in the last ...
... manner suited to her rank and race , and becoming the offspring of a sovereign distinguished for her piety and her courage ; that like her she has lofty sentiments ; that she feels with the dignity of a Roman matron ; that in the last ...
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... manner wholly in the hands of ecclesiastics , and in all stages from infancy to manhood . Even when our youth , leaving schools and universities , enter that most important period of life which begins to link experience and study ...
... manner wholly in the hands of ecclesiastics , and in all stages from infancy to manhood . Even when our youth , leaving schools and universities , enter that most important period of life which begins to link experience and study ...
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... manner no way assorted to those with whom they must associate , and over whom they must even exercise , in some cases , some- thing like an authority . What must they think of that body of teachers , if they see it in no part above the ...
... manner no way assorted to those with whom they must associate , and over whom they must even exercise , in some cases , some- thing like an authority . What must they think of that body of teachers , if they see it in no part above the ...
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Seite 77 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Seite 77 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Seite 35 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Seite 77 - The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound...
Seite 77 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Seite 34 - Right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity...
Seite 73 - ... amidst the horrid yells, and shrilling screams, and frantic dances, and infamous contumelies, and all the unutterable abominations of the furies of hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women.
Seite 80 - ... paid it with usury, by enlarging their ideas, and by furnishing their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Seite 61 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Seite 35 - By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.