Reflections on the revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that eventJ. Dodsley, 1790 - 364 sider |
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... France . I will not give you reafon to imagine , that I think my fentiments of fuch value as to with myself to be folicited about them . They are of too little confequence to be very anxiously either communicated or withheld . It was ...
... France . I will not give you reafon to imagine , that I think my fentiments of fuch value as to with myself to be folicited about them . They are of too little confequence to be very anxiously either communicated or withheld . It was ...
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... France , from the fo- lemn public feal of fanction they have received from two clubs of gentlemen in London , called the Constitutional Society , and the Revolution Society . I certainly have the honour to belong to more clubs than one ...
... France , from the fo- lemn public feal of fanction they have received from two clubs of gentlemen in London , called the Constitutional Society , and the Revolution Society . I certainly have the honour to belong to more clubs than one ...
Side 3
... France ; firft affuring you , that I am not , and that I have never been , a member of either of those focieties . Whether the books ever as charitably Poffibly feveral of France ; and , like The first , calling itself the ...
... France ; firft affuring you , that I am not , and that I have never been , a member of either of those focieties . Whether the books ever as charitably Poffibly feveral of France ; and , like The first , calling itself the ...
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... France . In the antient principles and conduct of the club , fo far at least as they were declared , 1 fee nothing to which I , or any fober man , could poffibly take exception . I think it very probable , that for fome purpofe , new ...
... France . In the antient principles and conduct of the club , fo far at least as they were declared , 1 fee nothing to which I , or any fober man , could poffibly take exception . I think it very probable , that for fome purpofe , new ...
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... France with thofe of England , by drawing us into an imitation of the conduct of the National Affembly , gave me a confiderable degree of uneafinefs . The effect of that conduct upon the power , credit , profperity , and tranquillity of ...
... France with thofe of England , by drawing us into an imitation of the conduct of the National Affembly , gave me a confiderable degree of uneafinefs . The effect of that conduct upon the power , credit , profperity , and tranquillity of ...
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abuſes affignats againſt almoſt antient authority becauſe cafe canton caufe cauſe church circumftances civil clergy compofed confequence confider confiderable confifcation conftitution courſe crown defcription deftroy difpofition eftates election England eſtabliſhment exercife exift exiſtence expence faid fame favour fecurity feems felves fenfe ferve fettled fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fituation fociety fome fomething foon fovereign fpeculations fpirit France ftate ftill fubject fucceffion fuch fuffer fuppofe fupport fure fyftem himſelf honour houſe inftead inftitutions inftruments intereft itſelf juftice king laft leaft leaſt lefs legiflators liberty meaſure ment mind minifters moft moſt muft muſt national affembly nature neceffary neceffity obferve Old Jewry Paris perfons pleaſure poffeffed poffible political prefent preferve principles purpoſes reafon refpect religion reprefentation reprefentative revenue Revolution ſcheme ſtate thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion truft underſtanding uſe virtue whilft whofe whole wiſdom worfe worſe
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Side 48 - The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of Providence, are handed down to us, and from us in the same course and order. 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...
Side 89 - 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.
Side 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.
Side 128 - In England we have not yet been completely embowelled of our natural entrails : we still feel within us, and we cherish and cultivate, those inbred sentiments which are the faithful guardians, the active monitors of our duty, the true supporters of all liberal and manly morals.
Side 115 - Regicide, and parricide, and sacrilege, are but fictions of superstition, corrupting jurisprudence by destroying its simplicity. The murder of a king, or a queen, or a bishop, or a father, are only common homicide ; and if the people are by any chance, or in any way, gainers by it, a sort of homicide much the most pardonable, and into which we ought not to make too severe a scrutiny.
Side 48 - 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.
Side 250 - Political arrangement, as it is a work for social ends, is to be only wrought by social means. There mind must conspire with mind. Time is required to produce that union of minds which alone can produce all the good we aim at. Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Side 113 - It was this which, without confounding ranks, had produced a noble equality, and handed it down through all the gradations of social life. It was this opinion which mitigated kings into companions, and raised private men to be fellows with kings.
Side 49 - By this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a pedigree and illustrating ancestors. It has its bearings and its ensigns armorial. It has its gallery of portraits ; its monumental inscriptions ; its records, evidences, and titles.
Side 90 - ... it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes.