Reflections on the Revolution in FranceMacmillan, 1890 - 484 páginas |
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Página xiii
... principles which he had professed through life . A few months after the publication of the Reflections , he had issued his Letter to a Member of the National Assembly , which was full of violent abuse of the Revolution and its authors ...
... principles which he had professed through life . A few months after the publication of the Reflections , he had issued his Letter to a Member of the National Assembly , which was full of violent abuse of the Revolution and its authors ...
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... principle of social cohesion , but there were positive principles of disruption and cen- tralization had so weakened the extremities , that , when the centre was shaken , the whole fabric necessarily fell to pieces . It is true that ...
... principle of social cohesion , but there were positive principles of disruption and cen- tralization had so weakened the extremities , that , when the centre was shaken , the whole fabric necessarily fell to pieces . It is true that ...
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... principles of government , and a strange and unaccountable appeal to visionary rights of nature . The bitterness of orators and writers was aggravated by the disgusting tenacity with which the nobles clung to all their old rights , no ...
... principles of government , and a strange and unaccountable appeal to visionary rights of nature . The bitterness of orators and writers was aggravated by the disgusting tenacity with which the nobles clung to all their old rights , no ...
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... principles , may always tend to the maintenance of the constitution and general happiness . " These rights of men were declared to be liberty , property , security , and resistance to oppres- sion . It follows that , men being equal in ...
... principles , may always tend to the maintenance of the constitution and general happiness . " These rights of men were declared to be liberty , property , security , and resistance to oppres- sion . It follows that , men being equal in ...
Página xxxvii
... principles and beliefs . " Locke alone , " says Voltaire , " has traced the progress of the human understanding in a book which contains nothing but truths ; and what makes the book perfect is that all the truths are clear . " Of the ...
... principles and beliefs . " Locke alone , " says Voltaire , " has traced the progress of the human understanding in a book which contains nothing but truths ; and what makes the book perfect is that all the truths are clear . " Of the ...
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Página 85 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Página 475 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house: and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Página 36 - 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 84 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Página 84 - 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. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy.
Página 36 - You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Página 85 - All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason; all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off...
Página 107 - Society is indeed a contract. 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 some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Página 97 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason ; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages.
Página 385 - Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.