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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... virtue is never tried but by fome difficulty , and fome struggle , C Nothing is a due and adequate representation of a state , that does not reprefent its ability , as well 1 i well as its property . But as ability is a ( 74 )
... virtue is never tried but by fome difficulty , and fome struggle , C Nothing is a due and adequate representation of a state , that does not reprefent its ability , as well 1 i well as its property . But as ability is a ( 74 )
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... representation . " I fhall only fay here , in justice to that old - fashioned conftitution , under which we have long profpered , that our representation has been found perfectly adequate to all the purposes for which a representation ...
... representation . " I fhall only fay here , in justice to that old - fashioned conftitution , under which we have long profpered , that our representation has been found perfectly adequate to all the purposes for which a representation ...
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... representation , this fundamental grievance ( fo they call it ) as a thing not only vicious in itself , but as rendering our whole government abfolutely illegitimate , and not at all better than a downright ufurpation . Another ...
... representation , this fundamental grievance ( fo they call it ) as a thing not only vicious in itself , but as rendering our whole government abfolutely illegitimate , and not at all better than a downright ufurpation . Another ...
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... representation of virtue , that fees with joy the unmerited fall of what had long flourished in splendour and in ho- nour . I do not like to fee any thing deftroyed ; any void produced in fociety ; any ruin on the face of the land . It ...
... representation of virtue , that fees with joy the unmerited fall of what had long flourished in splendour and in ho- nour . I do not like to fee any thing deftroyed ; any void produced in fociety ; any ruin on the face of the land . It ...
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... representation of the maffes is founded . The rich cannot feel it , either as a fupport to dignity , or as fecurity to fortune : S 3 for for the ariftocratic mafs is generated from purely democratic principles ( 261 )
... representation of the maffes is founded . The rich cannot feel it , either as a fupport to dignity , or as fecurity to fortune : S 3 for for the ariftocratic mafs is generated from purely democratic principles ( 261 )
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