Select Works: Reflections on the revolution in France. 1881; copies 2-4, 1888Clarendon Press, 1881 |
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... seem little better than a fool . After a time , this impression disappears ; eloquence and deep conviction have done their work , and the wisdom of a few pages , mostly dealing in generalities , is con- structively extended to the whole ...
... seem little better than a fool . After a time , this impression disappears ; eloquence and deep conviction have done their work , and the wisdom of a few pages , mostly dealing in generalities , is con- structively extended to the whole ...
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... seems to have distrusted all political creeds . There is hardly one notable political work of the day immediately preceding him to which he makes allusion , and then only in terms of censure . As an illustration at once of Burke's ...
... seems to have distrusted all political creeds . There is hardly one notable political work of the day immediately preceding him to which he makes allusion , and then only in terms of censure . As an illustration at once of Burke's ...
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... covers the whole ground to which they extend . Slumber seems natural to certain stages of human history : and a slumbering nation always resents the first signs of its awakenment . We may trace a similar vein of INTRODUCTION . XXV.
... covers the whole ground to which they extend . Slumber seems natural to certain stages of human history : and a slumbering nation always resents the first signs of its awakenment . We may trace a similar vein of INTRODUCTION . XXV.
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... seem to belong chiefly to theology , is neither inconsistent nor improbable . While he despises , as Buchanan had done , the beggarly theory which would make society exclusively dependent upon the utilities which attend it , and rests ...
... seem to belong chiefly to theology , is neither inconsistent nor improbable . While he despises , as Buchanan had done , the beggarly theory which would make society exclusively dependent upon the utilities which attend it , and rests ...
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... seems to exhaust itself upon other subjects . Their best reasoned conclusions are often forced to give way to instincts and sentiments for which they have no rational account to give . Even so it is with reason and instinct in matters ...
... seems to exhaust itself upon other subjects . Their best reasoned conclusions are often forced to give way to instincts and sentiments for which they have no rational account to give . Even so it is with reason and instinct in matters ...
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Página 89 - 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.
Página 89 - 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.
Página xxix - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Página 70 - 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 be frequently 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 39 - 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 ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Página 114 - As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead and those who are to be born. Each contract of each particular State is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical...
Página 39 - Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
Página 114 - It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Página 113 - 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. It is to be looked on with other reverence; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary...