Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event, in a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in ParisApollo Press, 1814 - 246 páginas |
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... conduct : therefore , if an assembly is viciously or feebly composed in a very great part of it , nothing but such a su- preme degree of virtue as very rarely appears in the world , and for that reason cannot enter into calculation ...
... conduct : therefore , if an assembly is viciously or feebly composed in a very great part of it , nothing but such a su- preme degree of virtue as very rarely appears in the world , and for that reason cannot enter into calculation ...
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... conduct in such assemblies , but that the body of them should be respectably composed , in point of condition in life , of permanent property , of education , and of such habits as enlarge and liberalize the understanding . In the ...
... conduct in such assemblies , but that the body of them should be respectably composed , in point of condition in life , of permanent property , of education , and of such habits as enlarge and liberalize the understanding . In the ...
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... conduct with dis- cretion , a power which they themselves , more than any others , must be surprised to find in their hands . Who could flatter himself that these men , suddenly , and , as it were , by enchantment , snatched from the ...
... conduct with dis- cretion , a power which they themselves , more than any others , must be surprised to find in their hands . Who could flatter himself that these men , suddenly , and , as it were , by enchantment , snatched from the ...
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... conducted by persons , who , whilst they attempted or effected changes in the common- wealth , sanctified their ambition by advancing the dignity of the people whose peace they troubled . They had long views . They aimed at the rule ...
... conducted by persons , who , whilst they attempted or effected changes in the common- wealth , sanctified their ambition by advancing the dignity of the people whose peace they troubled . They had long views . They aimed at the rule ...
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... conduct grounded on such principles , and productive of such effects . That I must leave to those who can see further into your affairs than I am able to do , and who best know how far your actions are favourable to their designs . The ...
... conduct grounded on such principles , and productive of such effects . That I must leave to those who can see further into your affairs than I am able to do , and who best know how far your actions are favourable to their designs . The ...
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Página 77 - ... 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 77 - 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 35 - 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 77 - The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound...
Página 77 - 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 splendour, and joy.
Página 34 - 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...
Página 73 - ... amidst the horrid yells, and shrilling screams, and frantic dances, and infamous contumelies, and all the unutterable abominations of the furies of hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women.
Página 80 - ... paid it with usury, by enlarging their ideas, and by furnishing their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Página 61 - 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 frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Página 35 - By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.