Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London, Relative to that EventSeeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1872 - 239 páginas |
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... conduct the subject of my observations . The National Assembly of France has given importance to these gentlemen by adopting them ; and they return the favour , by acting as a committee in England for extending the principles of the ...
... conduct the subject of my observations . The National Assembly of France has given importance to these gentlemen by adopting them ; and they return the favour , by acting as a committee in England for extending the principles of the ...
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... conduct . I think I envy liberty as little as they do , to any other nation . But I cannot stand forward , and give praise or blame to anything which relates to human actions , and human concerns , on a simple view of the object , as it ...
... conduct . I think I envy liberty as little as they do , to any other nation . But I cannot stand forward , and give praise or blame to anything which relates to human actions , and human concerns , on a simple view of the object , as it ...
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... conduct of the National Assembly , gave me a considerable degree of uneasiness . The effect of that conduct upon the power , credit , prosperity , and tranquillity of France , became every day more evident . The form of constitution to ...
... conduct of the National Assembly , gave me a considerable degree of uneasiness . The effect of that conduct upon the power , credit , prosperity , and tranquillity of France , became every day more evident . The form of constitution to ...
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... conduct ; and to form a government for ourselves . ' This Declaration of Right ( the act of the 1st of William and Mary , sess . 2 , ch . 2 ) is the corner - stone of our constitution , as reinforced , explained , improved , and in its ...
... conduct ; and to form a government for ourselves . ' This Declaration of Right ( the act of the 1st of William and Mary , sess . 2 , ch . 2 ) is the corner - stone of our constitution , as reinforced , explained , improved , and in its ...
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... conduct of affairs at that great event , to make the Revolution a parent of settle- ment , and not a nursery of future revolutions . No government could stand for a moment , if it could be blown down with any thing so loose and ...
... conduct of affairs at that great event , to make the Revolution a parent of settle- ment , and not a nursery of future revolutions . No government could stand for a moment , if it could be blown down with any thing so loose and ...
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Página 72 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 32 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Página 91 - Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure — but the State ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or sume other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence ; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of...
Página 73 - All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.
Página 47 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Página 156 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Página 57 - In this sense the restraints on men as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights. But as the liberties and the restrictions vary with times and circumstances, and admit of infinite modifications, they cannot be settled upon any abstract rule ; and nothing is so foolish as to discuss them upon that principle.
Página 12 - 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.
Página 17 - Parliament was made intituled an Act for declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and for settling the succession of the crown...
Página 58 - These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of nature, refracted from their straight line. Indeed in the gross and complicated mass of human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of men undergo such a variety of refractions and reflections, that it becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction.