Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in ParisJ. Dodsley, 1791 - 364 páginas |
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... should be ftill more unwilling to enter into that correfpondence , under any thing like an equivocal defcription , which to many , unac- quainted with our ufages , might make the address , in which I joined , appear as the act of ...
... should be ftill more unwilling to enter into that correfpondence , under any thing like an equivocal defcription , which to many , unac- quainted with our ufages , might make the address , in which I joined , appear as the act of ...
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... should separate what they confound . We muft recall their erring fancies to the acts of the Revolution which we revere , for the discovery of its true principles . If the principles of the Revolution of 1688 are any where to be found ...
... should separate what they confound . We muft recall their erring fancies to the acts of the Revolution which we revere , for the discovery of its true principles . If the principles of the Revolution of 1688 are any where to be found ...
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... should have no law , and no religion , left in the world . But an abfurd theory on one fide of a queftion forms no juftification for alledging a false fact , or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other . The second claim of the ...
... should have no law , and no religion , left in the world . But an abfurd theory on one fide of a queftion forms no juftification for alledging a false fact , or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other . The second claim of the ...
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... should be told , on occafions of congratulation , that " he is to confider " himself as more properly the fervant than " the fovereign of his people . " For a compli- ment , this new form of addrefs does not seem to be very foothing ...
... should be told , on occafions of congratulation , that " he is to confider " himself as more properly the fervant than " the fovereign of his people . " For a compli- ment , this new form of addrefs does not seem to be very foothing ...
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... should have confidered all this as no more than a fort of flippant vain difcourfe , in which , as in an unfavoury fume , feveral perfons fuffer the spirit of liberty to evaporate , if it were not plainly in support of the idea , and a ...
... should have confidered all this as no more than a fort of flippant vain difcourfe , in which , as in an unfavoury fume , feveral perfons fuffer the spirit of liberty to evaporate , if it were not plainly in support of the idea , and a ...
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