Reflections on the revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that eventJ. Dodsley, 1790 - 364 páginas |
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... confiscation , and that long roll of grim and bloody maxims , which form the political code of all power , not ftanding on its own honour , and the honour of those who are to obey it . Kings will be tyrants from policy when fubjects are ...
... confiscation , and that long roll of grim and bloody maxims , which form the political code of all power , not ftanding on its own honour , and the honour of those who are to obey it . Kings will be tyrants from policy when fubjects are ...
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... , befides the public at large , they must be those who managed the agreement , Why therefore are not the eftates of all the comptrollers general confiscated ? Why Why not thofe of the long fucceffion of minifters , ( 169 )
... , befides the public at large , they must be those who managed the agreement , Why therefore are not the eftates of all the comptrollers general confiscated ? Why Why not thofe of the long fucceffion of minifters , ( 169 )
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... confiscation to the amount of five millions . The impofition of £ . 2,200,000 on the clergy , as partial , would have been oppreffive and unjuft , but it would not have been altogether ruinous to thofe on whom it was impofed ; and ...
... confiscation to the amount of five millions . The impofition of £ . 2,200,000 on the clergy , as partial , would have been oppreffive and unjuft , but it would not have been altogether ruinous to thofe on whom it was impofed ; and ...
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... confiscation of the goods of monks and nuns , and the abolition of their order . It is true , that this particular part of your general confifcation does not affect England , as a precedent in point : but the rea- fon applies ; and it ...
... confiscation of the goods of monks and nuns , and the abolition of their order . It is true , that this particular part of your general confifcation does not affect England , as a precedent in point : but the rea- fon applies ; and it ...
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... confiscated property will be in a confiderable degree more laborious , more virtuous , more fober , lefs disposed to extort an unreasonable proportion of the gains of the labourer , or to confume on them- felves a larger share than is ...
... confiscated property will be in a confiderable degree more laborious , more virtuous , more fober , lefs disposed to extort an unreasonable proportion of the gains of the labourer , or to confume on them- felves a larger share than is ...
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Página 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...
Página 89 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Página 13 - 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 128 - In England we have not yet been completely embowelled of our natural entrails : we still feel within us, and we cherish and cultivate, those inbred sentiments which are the faithful guardians, the active monitors of our duty, the true supporters of all liberal and manly morals.
Página 115 - Regicide, and parricide, and sacrilege, are but fictions of superstition, corrupting jurisprudence by destroying its simplicity. The murder of a king, or a queen, or a bishop, or a father, are only common homicide ; and if the people are by any chance, or in any way, gainers by it, a sort of homicide much the most pardonable, and into which we ought not to make too severe a scrutiny.
Página 48 - By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.
Página 250 - 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. Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Página 113 - It was this which, without confounding ranks, had produced a noble equality, and handed it down through all the gradations of social life. It was this opinion which mitigated kings into companions, and raised private men to be fellows with kings.
Página 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.
Página 90 - ... it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes.