Reflections on the revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that eventJ. Dodsley, 1790 - 364 sidor |
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Sida 90
... schemes , with very pleasing commencements , have often shameful and lamentable conclufions . In ftates there are often fome obfcure and almost latent causes , things which appear at first view of little moment , on which a very great ...
... schemes , with very pleasing commencements , have often shameful and lamentable conclufions . In ftates there are often fome obfcure and almost latent causes , things which appear at first view of little moment , on which a very great ...
Sida 94
... schemes of politics not adapted to the ftate of the world in which they live , they often come to think lightly of all public principle ; and are ready , on their part , to abandon for a very trivial intereft what they find of very ...
... schemes of politics not adapted to the ftate of the world in which they live , they often come to think lightly of all public principle ; and are ready , on their part , to abandon for a very trivial intereft what they find of very ...
Sida 114
... scheme of things , a king is but a man ; a queen is but a woman ; a woman is but an animal ; and an animal not of the highest order . All homage paid to the fex in general as fuch , and without diftinct views , is to be re- garded as ...
... scheme of things , a king is but a man ; a queen is but a woman ; a woman is but an animal ; and an animal not of the highest order . All homage paid to the fex in general as fuch , and without diftinct views , is to be re- garded as ...
Sida 115
... scheme of this barbarous philofophy , which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings , and which is as void of folid wif- dom , as it is deftitute of all tafte and elegance , laws are to be supported only by their own ...
... scheme of this barbarous philofophy , which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings , and which is as void of folid wif- dom , as it is deftitute of all tafte and elegance , laws are to be supported only by their own ...
Sida 130
... scheme of things , because it is an old one . As to the new , they are in no fort of fear with regard to the duration of a building run up in hafte ; because duration is no object to those who think little or nothing has been done ...
... scheme of things , because it is an old one . As to the new , they are in no fort of fear with regard to the duration of a building run up in hafte ; because duration is no object to those who think little or nothing has been done ...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain ... Edmund Burke Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1791 |
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Sida 48 - 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 political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory, parts...
Sida 89 - 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.
Sida 13 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Sida 128 - In England we have not yet been completely embowelled of our natural entrails : we still feel within us, and we cherish and cultivate, those inbred sentiments which are the faithful guardians, the active monitors of our duty, the true supporters of all liberal and manly morals.
Sida 115 - Regicide, and parricide, and sacrilege, are but fictions of superstition, corrupting jurisprudence by destroying its simplicity. The murder of a king, or a queen, or a bishop, or a father, are only common homicide ; and if the people are by any chance, or in any way, gainers by it, a sort of homicide much the most pardonable, and into which we ought not to make too severe a scrutiny.
Sida 48 - 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.
Sida 250 - Political arrangement, as it is a work for social ends, is to be only wrought by social means. There mind must conspire with mind. Time is required to produce that union of minds which alone can produce all the good we aim at. Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Sida 113 - It was this which, without confounding ranks, had produced a noble equality, and handed it down through all the gradations of social life. It was this opinion which mitigated kings into companions, and raised private men to be fellows with kings.
Sida 49 - By this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a pedigree and illustrating ancestors. It has its bearings and its ensigns armorial. It has its gallery of portraits ; its monumental inscriptions ; its records, evidences, and titles.
Sida 90 - ... it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes.