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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... description of men ; nor fhall I in this . My errors , if any , are my own . My reputation alone is to answer for them . You fee , Sir , by the long letter I have trans- mitted to you , that , though I do moft heartily wish that France ...
... description of men ; nor fhall I in this . My errors , if any , are my own . My reputation alone is to answer for them . You fee , Sir , by the long letter I have trans- mitted to you , that , though I do moft heartily wish that France ...
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... fomewhat more inftructed , and more confpicuous in the order of fociety , had never known any thing beyond their count- ing - houfe ? ing - house ? No ! both these descriptions were expence to the ftate, of which they understood ...
... fomewhat more inftructed , and more confpicuous in the order of fociety , had never known any thing beyond their count- ing - houfe ? ing - house ? No ! both these descriptions were expence to the ftate, of which they understood ...
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... descriptions , from whom as little knowledge of or attention to the interefts of a great ftate was to be expected , and as little regard to the ftability of any inftitution ; men formed to be inftruments , not controls . Such in general ...
... descriptions , from whom as little knowledge of or attention to the interefts of a great ftate was to be expected , and as little regard to the ftability of any inftitution ; men formed to be inftruments , not controls . Such in general ...
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... descriptions of citizens , fome defcrip- tion must be uppermost . The levellers there- fore only change and pervert the natural or- der of things ; they load the edifice of fo- ciety , by fetting up in the air what the folidity of the ...
... descriptions of citizens , fome defcrip- tion must be uppermost . The levellers there- fore only change and pervert the natural or- der of things ; they load the edifice of fo- ciety , by fetting up in the air what the folidity of the ...
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... . It is a thing to be fettled by convention . If civil fociety be the offspring of convention , hat convention must be its law . That convention G 4 muft 藤 must limit and modify all the descriptions of confti- ( 87 )
... . It is a thing to be fettled by convention . If civil fociety be the offspring of convention , hat convention must be its law . That convention G 4 muft 藤 must limit and modify all the descriptions of confti- ( 87 )
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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.