Reflections on the Revolution in France,: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. : In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in ParisJ. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1790 - 356 sidor |
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... things too ; and , without them , liberty is not a be- nefit whilst it lasts , and is not likely to continue long ... thing as new power in new persons , of whose principles , tem- pers , and dispositions , they have little or no ex ...
... things too ; and , without them , liberty is not a be- nefit whilst it lasts , and is not likely to continue long ... thing as new power in new persons , of whose principles , tem- pers , and dispositions , they have little or no ex ...
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... things are brought about in many instances by means the most absurd and ridiculous ; in the most ridiculous modes ; and apparently , by the most contemptible instruments . Every thing seems out of nature in this strange chaos of levity ...
... things are brought about in many instances by means the most absurd and ridiculous ; in the most ridiculous modes ; and apparently , by the most contemptible instruments . Every thing seems out of nature in this strange chaos of levity ...
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... thing resembling that principle , that at first they were determined to place the vacant crown , not on the head of the prince of Orange , but on that of his wife Mary , daughter of King James , the eldest born of the issue of that king ...
... thing resembling that principle , that at first they were determined to place the vacant crown , not on the head of the prince of Orange , but on that of his wife Mary , daughter of King James , the eldest born of the issue of that king ...
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... thing done at the Revolution , either in precedent or principle , as the two first of their claims . The Revolu- tion was made to preserve our antient indif- putable laws and liberties , and that antient constitution of government which ...
... thing done at the Revolution , either in precedent or principle , as the two first of their claims . The Revolu- tion was made to preserve our antient indif- putable laws and liberties , and that antient constitution of government which ...
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... thing to begin anew . You began ill , because you began by despising every thing that belonged You set up your trade without a capital . If the last generations of your country appeared without much lustre in your eyes , you might have ...
... thing to begin anew . You began ill , because you began by despising every thing that belonged You set up your trade without a capital . If the last generations of your country appeared without much lustre in your eyes , you might have ...
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Reflections on the revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain ... Edmund Burke Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1790 |
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Sida 48 - 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; wherein by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
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 57 - ... precarious, tottering power, the discredited paper securities of impoverished fraud, and beggared rapine, held out as a currency for the support of...
Sida 69 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.
Sida 87 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. It is an institution of beneficence ; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule.
Sida 133 - Who, born within the last forty years, has read one word of Collins, and Toland, and Tindal, and Chubb, and Morgan, and that whole race who called themselves Freethinkers? Who now reads Bolingbroke? Who ever read him through?
Sida 143 - ... approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
Sida 88 - ... civil society be the offspring of convention, that convention must be its law. That convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed under it. Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are its creatures.
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 115 - I may use the expression, in persons ; so as to create in us love, veneration, admiration, or attachment. But that sort of reason which banishes the affections is incapable of filling their place. These public affections, combined with manners, are required sometimes as supplements, sometimes as correctives, always as aids to law.