Reflections on the Revolution in France,: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. : In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in ParisJ. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1790 - 356 sider |
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... see , Sir , by the long letter I have tranf- mitted to you , that , though I do most heartily wish that France may be animated by a spirit of B rational rational liberty , and that I think you bound , ( 1 ) DEAR SIR, ...
... see , Sir , by the long letter I have tranf- mitted to you , that , though I do most heartily wish that France may be animated by a spirit of B rational rational liberty , and that I think you bound , ( 1 ) DEAR SIR, ...
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... see nothing to which I , or any sober man , could possibly take exception . I think it very probable , that for some purpose , new members may have entered among them ; and that some truly christian politicians , who love to dispense ...
... see nothing to which I , or any sober man , could possibly take exception . I think it very probable , that for some purpose , new members may have entered among them ; and that some truly christian politicians , who love to dispense ...
Side 8
... see a strong principle at work ; and this , for a while , is all I can possibly know of it . The wild gas , the fixed air is plainly broke loose : but we ought to suspend our judgment until the first ef- fervescence is a little subsided ...
... see a strong principle at work ; and this , for a while , is all I can possibly know of it . The wild gas , the fixed air is plainly broke loose : but we ought to suspend our judgment until the first ef- fervescence is a little subsided ...
Side 9
... see what it will please them to do , before we risque congratulations , which may be soon turned into complaints . Prudence would dictate this in the case of separate insulated private men ; but li- berty , when men act in bodies , is ...
... see what it will please them to do , before we risque congratulations , which may be soon turned into complaints . Prudence would dictate this in the case of separate insulated private men ; but li- berty , when men act in bodies , is ...
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... see nothing in that of 1688 but the deviation from the constitution ; and they take the deviation from the principle for the principle . They have little regard to the obvious con- fequences of their doctrine , though they must see ...
... see nothing in that of 1688 but the deviation from the constitution ; and they take the deviation from the principle for the principle . They have little regard to the obvious con- fequences of their doctrine , though they must see ...
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Side 48 - 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...
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 57 - ... precarious, tottering power, the discredited paper securities of impoverished fraud, and beggared rapine, held out as a currency for the support of...
Side 69 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.
Side 87 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. It is an institution of beneficence ; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule.
Side 133 - Who, born within the last forty years, has read one word of Collins, and Toland, and Tindal, and Chubb, and Morgan, and that whole race who called themselves Freethinkers? Who now reads Bolingbroke? Who ever read him through?
Side 143 - ... approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
Side 88 - ... civil society be the offspring of convention, that convention must be its law. That convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed under it. Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are its creatures.
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 115 - I may use the expression, in persons ; so as to create in us love, veneration, admiration, or attachment. But that sort of reason which banishes the affections is incapable of filling their place. These public affections, combined with manners, are required sometimes as supplements, sometimes as correctives, always as aids to law.