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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... those principles in their utmost purity and vigour . It is because I do so , that I think it necessary for me , that there should be no mistake . Those who cultivate the memory of our revolution , and those who are attached to the ...
... those principles in their utmost purity and vigour . It is because I do so , that I think it necessary for me , that there should be no mistake . Those who cultivate the memory of our revolution , and those who are attached to the ...
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... those of exultation and rapture . They saw nothing in what has been done in France , but a firm and temperate exertion of freedom ; so consistent , on the whole , with mo- rals and with piety , as to make it deserving not only of the ...
... those of exultation and rapture . They saw nothing in what has been done in France , but a firm and temperate exertion of freedom ; so consistent , on the whole , with mo- rals and with piety , as to make it deserving not only of the ...
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... those by whom it was brought about ; or to read in the declaration of right any misteries unknown to those whose penetrating style has engraved in our ordi- nances , and in our hearts , the words and spirit of that immortal law . It is ...
... those by whom it was brought about ; or to read in the declaration of right any misteries unknown to those whose penetrating style has engraved in our ordi- nances , and in our hearts , the words and spirit of that immortal law . It is ...
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... those who exercise any authority , under any name , or under any title , in the state . The house of lords , for instance , is not morally competent to dissolve the house of commons ; no , nor even to dissolve itself , nor to abdicate ...
... those who exercise any authority , under any name , or under any title , in the state . The house of lords , for instance , is not morally competent to dissolve the house of commons ; no , nor even to dissolve itself , nor to abdicate ...
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... those which they have found mischievous on trial . They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights , not as among their wrongs ; as a benefit , not as a grievance ; as a security for their liberty ...
... those which they have found mischievous on trial . They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights , not as among their wrongs ; as a benefit , not as a grievance ; as a security for their liberty ...
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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.