A Comparative Display of the Different Opinions of the Most Distinguished British Writers on the Subject of the French Revolution: Followed by a Review, and Comparison with Events, Volym 3P. Stuart, 1811 |
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... necessary to en able me to satisfy my curiosity concerning the result of the most singular Revolution recorded in the annals of mankind . I should consider myself as a bad subject of Britain , if I did not use every endeavour to render ...
... necessary to en able me to satisfy my curiosity concerning the result of the most singular Revolution recorded in the annals of mankind . I should consider myself as a bad subject of Britain , if I did not use every endeavour to render ...
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... necessary and HAPPY ; —or , that they have changed their principles . The Revolution before the 10th of August was as different from the Revolution after that day as light from darkness ; as clearly distinct in principle and practice as ...
... necessary and HAPPY ; —or , that they have changed their principles . The Revolution before the 10th of August was as different from the Revolution after that day as light from darkness ; as clearly distinct in principle and practice as ...
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... necessary . The Council General directly ordered , that none shoul stir without a passport * . ? The constitutional dignity of the National Assembly , ' says Paine , cannot debase itself . ' Paris is the best judge of the debasement of ...
... necessary . The Council General directly ordered , that none shoul stir without a passport * . ? The constitutional dignity of the National Assembly , ' says Paine , cannot debase itself . ' Paris is the best judge of the debasement of ...
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... necessary to speak more guardedly . 6 " The Friends of the People and Constitu- tional Society of Newington thus address the Convention : It is with the most profound sensi- bility that we behold the success of your arms , in your ...
... necessary to speak more guardedly . 6 " The Friends of the People and Constitu- tional Society of Newington thus address the Convention : It is with the most profound sensi- bility that we behold the success of your arms , in your ...
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... necessary to enter upon a Review of the whole , but to confine it to such parts as time and events leave still in some de- gree uncertain . Respecting the historical part , Mr. Burke and all the Writers , except Mr. Young , were nearly ...
... necessary to enter upon a Review of the whole , but to confine it to such parts as time and events leave still in some de- gree uncertain . Respecting the historical part , Mr. Burke and all the Writers , except Mr. Young , were nearly ...
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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 56 - I wish you may not be going fast, and by the shortest cut, to that horrible and disgustful situation. Already there appears a poverty of conception, a coarseness and vulgarity, in all the proceedings of the Assembly and of all their instructors. Their liberty is not liberal. Their science is presumptuous ignorance. Their humanity is savage and brutal.
Sida 58 - ... human and divine sacrificed to the idol of public credit, and national bankruptcy the consequence ; and, to crown all, the paper securities of new, precarious, tottering power, the discredited paper securities of impoverished fraud and beggared rapine, held out as a currency for the support of an empire, in lieu of the two great recognised species that represent the lasting, conventional credit of mankind...
Sida 65 - If I might venture to appeal to what is so much out of fashion in Paris, I mean to experience, I should tell you, that in my course I have known, and, according to my measure, have co-operated with great men ; and I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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 64 - The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility. He ought to love and respect his kind, and to fear himself. It may be allowed to his temperament to catch his ultimate object with an intuitive glance ; but his movements towards it ought to be deliberate. 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.
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 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.
Sida 54 - 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 produced and possibly may be upheld. Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles, and were indeed the result of both combined; I mean the spirit of a gentleman and the spirit of religion.
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, haudfacilem esse viam voluit. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill ; our antagonist is our helper.