The Cabinet History of England, Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical: From the Invasion by Julius Caesar to the Year 1846, Volumen11Blackie and Son, 1851 |
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Página 221 - An act for the safety and preservation of his Majesty's person and government against treasonable and seditious practices and attempts...
Página 69 - The spirit, it is impossible not to admire ; but the old Parisian ferocity has broken out in a shocking manner. It is true, that this may be no more than a sudden explosion ; if so, no indication can be taken from it ; but if it should be character, rather than accident, then that people are not fit for liberty, and mast have a strong hand, like that of their former masters, to coerce them.
Página 151 - 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 76 - ... that if he were to put all the political information which he had learned from books, all which he had gained from science, and all which any knowledge of the world and its affairs had taught him, into one scale, and the improvement which he had derived from his right honourable friend's instruction and conversation were placed in the other, he should be at a loss to decide to which to give the preference.
Página 76 - Did such a declaration", he asked, "warrant the idea that he was a friend to Democracy? He declared himself equally the enemy of all absolute forms of government whether an absolute Monarchy, an absolute Aristocracy, or an absolute Democracy. He was adverse to all extremes, and a friend only to a mixed government like our own, in which, if the Aristocracy, or indeed either of the three branches of the Constitution, were destroyed, the good effect of the whole and the happiness derived under it would,...
Página 149 - Life of him: Burke, he said, agreed with him: and affirmed, that this work was a greater monument to Johnson's fame; than all his writings put together. — Condemned democracy as the most monstrous of all governments, because it is impossible at once to act and to control, and consequently the sovereign power, in such a constitution, must be left without any check whatever : regarded that form of government as best, which placed the efficient sovereignty in the hands of the natural aristocracy of...
Página 99 - We swear to be faithful to the nation, to the law, and to the king ; and to maintain with all our power the constitution decreed by the National Assembly and accepted by the king ; and to remain united to all Frenchmen, by the indissoluble ties of fraternity.
Página 108 - I saw, was the great desire that everybody had to act a great part, and the jealousy, which in consequence of this was entertained of those who were really eminent. It seemed as if all persons, from the highest to the lowest, whether deputies themselves, declaimers in the Palais Royal, orators in the coffee-houses, spectators in the gallery, or the populace about the door, looked upon themselves individually as of great consequence in the revolution. The man who kept the hotel at which I lodged at...
Página 115 - A decree was passed on the 27th of November ejecting from their benefices all those of the clergy who should refuse to take an oath " to maintain to the utmost the new constitution of France, and particularly the decrees relative to the civil constitution of the country.
Página 152 - You talk of Paine with more respect than he deserves. He is. utterly incapable of comprehending his subject. He has not even a moderate portion of learning of any kind. He has learned the instrumental part of literature ; a style, and a method of disposing of his ideas ; without having ever made a previous preparation of study, or thinking, for the use of it.