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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... operations , and precarious in its tenure ; if they had been able to contrive no better remedy against arbitrary power than civil confusion . Let these gentlemen state who that representative public is to whom they will affirm the king ...
... operations , and precarious in its tenure ; if they had been able to contrive no better remedy against arbitrary power than civil confusion . Let these gentlemen state who that representative public is to whom they will affirm the king ...
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... operation of adequate causes , filled with every thing illus trious in rank , in descent , in hereditary and in acquired opulence , in cultivated talents , in military , civil , naval , and politic distinction , that the country can ...
... operation of adequate causes , filled with every thing illus trious in rank , in descent , in hereditary and in acquired opulence , in cultivated talents , in military , civil , naval , and politic distinction , that the country can ...
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... operation . Its defensive power is weak- ened as it is diffused . In this diffusion each man's por- tion is less than what , in the eagerness of his desires , he may flatter himself to obtain by dissipating the accumula- tions of others ...
... operation . Its defensive power is weak- ened as it is diffused . In this diffusion each man's por- tion is less than what , in the eagerness of his desires , he may flatter himself to obtain by dissipating the accumula- tions of others ...
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... operation ; and its excellence may arise even from the ill effects it produces in the be- ginning . The reverse also happens ; and very plausible schemes , with very pleasing commencements , have often shameful and lamentable ...
... operation ; and its excellence may arise even from the ill effects it produces in the be- ginning . The reverse also happens ; and very plausible schemes , with very pleasing commencements , have often shameful and lamentable ...
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... operation , we must presume that , on the whole , their operation was bene- ficial . We are but too apt to consider things in the state in which we find them , without sufficiently adverting to the causes by which they have been ...
... operation , we must presume that , on the whole , their operation was bene- ficial . We are but too apt to consider things in the state in which we find them , without sufficiently adverting to the causes by which they have been ...
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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.