Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution ...J.S. Jordan, 1791 - 171 sider |
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... appear- ance of being written as inftruction to the French nation ; but if I may permit myself the ufe of an extravagant metaphor , fuited to the extravagance of the cafe , It is darkness attempting to illumi- nate light . While While I ...
... appear- ance of being written as inftruction to the French nation ; but if I may permit myself the ufe of an extravagant metaphor , fuited to the extravagance of the cafe , It is darkness attempting to illumi- nate light . While While I ...
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... appears to have no idea of principles , when he is contemplating governments . " Ten years ago ( fays he ) I could have felicitated " France on her having a government , without " enquiring what the nature of that government 66 was , or ...
... appears to have no idea of principles , when he is contemplating governments . " Ten years ago ( fays he ) I could have felicitated " France on her having a government , without " enquiring what the nature of that government 66 was , or ...
Side 22
... appear to be any that were intentionally fingled out . They all of them had their fate in the circumstances of the moment , and were not purfued with that long , cold - blooded , unabated 2 unabated revenge which purfued the unfortunate ...
... appear to be any that were intentionally fingled out . They all of them had their fate in the circumstances of the moment , and were not purfued with that long , cold - blooded , unabated 2 unabated revenge which purfued the unfortunate ...
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... attack the Baftille ; a vast mixed multitude of all ages , and of all degrees , and armed with all forts of weapons . Imagina- tion would fail in defcribing to itself the appear- ance ance of fuch a proceffion , and of the anxiety [ 30 ]
... attack the Baftille ; a vast mixed multitude of all ages , and of all degrees , and armed with all forts of weapons . Imagina- tion would fail in defcribing to itself the appear- ance ance of fuch a proceffion , and of the anxiety [ 30 ]
Side 39
... appear to have encoura- . ged it , as well as its friends . The one hoped to prevent a civil war by checking it in time , and the other to make one . The hopes of thofe opposed to the revolution , rested in making the King of their ...
... appear to have encoura- . ged it , as well as its friends . The one hoped to prevent a civil war by checking it in time , and the other to make one . The hopes of thofe opposed to the revolution , rested in making the King of their ...
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Side 9 - Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow.
Side 158 - III. The nation is essentially the source of all sovereignty; nor can any individual, or any body of men, be entitled to any authority which is not expressly derived from it.
Side 157 - ... contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance, the usurpation cannot alter the right of things. Sovereignty as a matter of right appertains to the nation only, and not to any individual; and a nation has at all times...
Side 45 - The fact is, that portions of antiquity, by proving everything, establish nothing. It is authority against authority all the way, till we come to the divine origin of the rights of man, at the creation.
Side 44 - The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity. They do not go the whole way.
Side 53 - The constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people constituting a government. It is the body of elements to which you can refer and quote article by article...
Side 112 - VIII. The law ought to impose no other penalties but such as are absolutely and evidently necessary ; and no one ought to be punished, but in virtue of a law promulgated before the offence, and legally applied.
Side 85 - It looks to me as if I were in a great crisis, not of the affairs of France alone, but of all Europe, perhaps of more than Europe. All circumstances taken together, the French revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world.
Side 10 - I am contending for the rights of the living, and against their being willed away and controlled and contracted for by the manuscript assumed authority of the dead, and Mr. Burke is contending for the authority of the dead over the rights and freedom of the living.
Side 48 - Man did not enter into society to become worse than he was before, nor to have fewer rights than he had before, but to have those rights better secured. His natural rights are the foundation of all his civil rights. But in order to pursue this distinction with more precision, it will be necessary to mark the different qualities of natural and civil rights.