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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... tion . It stands solely on authority ; and in this case it is the mere authority of individuals , few of whom appear . Their signatures ought , in my opinion , to have been annexed to their instrument . The world would then have the ...
... tion . It stands solely on authority ; and in this case it is the mere authority of individuals , few of whom appear . Their signatures ought , in my opinion , to have been annexed to their instrument . The world would then have the ...
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... tion to formal method . I set out with the pro- ceedings of the Revolution Society ; but I shall not confine myself to them . Is it possible I should ? It looks to me as if I were in a great crisis , not of the affairs of France alone ...
... tion to formal method . I set out with the pro- ceedings of the Revolution Society ; but I shall not confine myself to them . Is it possible I should ? It looks to me as if I were in a great crisis , not of the affairs of France alone ...
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... tion , " which they thought to be considera- tions of some moment . To provide for these ob- jects , and therefore to exclude for ever the Old Jewry doctrine of " a right to choose our own governors , " they follow with a clause , con ...
... tion , " which they thought to be considera- tions of some moment . To provide for these ob- jects , and therefore to exclude for ever the Old Jewry doctrine of " a right to choose our own governors , " they follow with a clause , con ...
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... tion ) the change is to be confined to the peccant part only ; to the part which produced the ne- cessary deviation ; and even then it is to be effected without a decomposition of the whole civil and political mass , for the purpose of ...
... tion ) the change is to be confined to the peccant part only ; to the part which produced the ne- cessary deviation ; and even then it is to be effected without a decomposition of the whole civil and political mass , for the purpose of ...
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... tion , that the principles of the Revolution did not authorize them to elect kings at their pleasure , and without any attention to the an- tient fundamental principles of our government , than their continuing to adopt a plan of here ...
... tion , that the principles of the Revolution did not authorize them to elect kings at their pleasure , and without any attention to the an- tient fundamental principles of our government , than their continuing to adopt a plan of here ...
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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.