A Comparative Display of the Different Opinions of the Most Distnguished British Writers on the Subject of the French Revolution, Volym 3P. Stuart, 1811 |
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... motives , I have not a doubt : -they think , on theory , that per sonal representation may be consistent with the security of property ; much as they are deceived in this idea , yet their error was once respect- able * . They say to ...
... motives , I have not a doubt : -they think , on theory , that per sonal representation may be consistent with the security of property ; much as they are deceived in this idea , yet their error was once respect- able * . They say to ...
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... motives , let it not be imagined for be a moment , that there is any thing re- spectable in the levellers , your fellows of the Rights of Man , whose principles are not a jot better than those of highwaymen and house- breakers ; for the ...
... motives , let it not be imagined for be a moment , that there is any thing re- spectable in the levellers , your fellows of the Rights of Man , whose principles are not a jot better than those of highwaymen and house- breakers ; for the ...
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... motive but fear ; by a fear of every thing except their master . His functions of internal coercion are as odious as those which he exercises in the department of justice . If relief is to be given to any munici- pality , the Assembly ...
... motive but fear ; by a fear of every thing except their master . His functions of internal coercion are as odious as those which he exercises in the department of justice . If relief is to be given to any munici- pality , the Assembly ...
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... motives besides the extirpation of feu dality disposed the French Legislature to the suppression of titles . To give stability to a po- pular government , a democratic character must be formed , and democratic sentiments inspired . The ...
... motives besides the extirpation of feu dality disposed the French Legislature to the suppression of titles . To give stability to a po- pular government , a democratic character must be formed , and democratic sentiments inspired . The ...
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... tions of reformation the identical objections which , under his own auspices , they oppose to all reformation now ; and Parliament at that time , like like the late Parliament , ( for motives which I 114 REVIEW OF WRITERS .
... tions of reformation the identical objections which , under his own auspices , they oppose to all reformation now ; and Parliament at that time , like like the late Parliament , ( for motives which I 114 REVIEW OF WRITERS .
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Sida 18 - No man should be accused, arrested, or held in confinement, except in cases determined by the law, and according to the forms which it has prescribed.
Sida 58 - They have seen the French rebel against a mild and lawful monarch, with more fury, outrage, and insult, than ever any people has been known to rise against the most illegal usurper, or the most sanguinary tyrant.
Sida 54 - When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment we have no compass to govern us ; nor can we know distinctly to what port we steer.
Sida 57 - France. France, by the perfidy of her leaders, has utterly disgraced the tone of lenient council in the cabinets of princes, and disarmed it of its most potent topics. She has sanctified the dark, suspicious maxims of tyrannous distrust, and taught kings to tremble at (what will hereafter be called) ¡ the delusive plausibilities of moral politicians.
Sida 61 - Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi hand fa,' cilem esse viam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Sida 66 - Where the great interests of mankind are concerned through a long succession of generations, that succession ought to be admitted into some share in the councils, which are so deeply to affect them. If justice requires this, the work itself requires the aid of more minds than one age can furnish.
Sida 63 - Your mob can do this as well at least as your assemblies. The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task. Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour, than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
Sida 55 - ... whilst governments were rather in their causes, than formed. Learning paid back what it received to nobility and to priesthood ; and 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...
Sida 61 - This it has been the glory of the great masters in all the arts to confront, and to overcome; and, when they had overcorne the first difficulty, to turn it into an instrument for new conquests over new difficulties ; thus to enable them to extend the empire of their science, and, even to push forward beyond the reach of their original thoughts, the landmarks of the human understanding itself.
Sida 60 - ... and bathing in tears and plunging in poverty and distress thousands of worthy men and worthy families. Their cruelty has not even been the base result of fear. It has been the effect of their sense of perfect safety, in authorizing treasons, robberies, rapes, assassinations, slaughters, and burnings, throughout their harassed land. But the cause of all was plain from the beginning.