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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Side 51
... passed them . by , and derived your claims . from a more early race of ancestors . Under a pious predilection to those ancestors , your ima- to you . E 2 ginations ginations would have realized in them a standard of virtue ( 51 )
... passed them . by , and derived your claims . from a more early race of ancestors . Under a pious predilection to those ancestors , your ima- to you . E 2 ginations ginations would have realized in them a standard of virtue ( 51 )
Side 52
... virtue and wisdom , beyond the vulgar practice of the hour and you would have risen with the example to whose imitation you aspired . Respect- ing your forefathers , you would have been taught . to respect yourselves . You would not ...
... virtue and wisdom , beyond the vulgar practice of the hour and you would have risen with the example to whose imitation you aspired . Respect- ing your forefathers , you would have been taught . to respect yourselves . You would not ...
Side 53
... virtue , not to overlay it ; you would have had a liberal order of commons , to emu- late and to recruit that nobility ; you would have had a protected , satisfied , laborious , and obe- dient people , taught to seek and to recognize ...
... virtue , not to overlay it ; you would have had a liberal order of commons , to emu- late and to recruit that nobility ; you would have had a protected , satisfied , laborious , and obe- dient people , taught to seek and to recognize ...
Side 54
... virtue to her in- terest ; but he has abandoned her interest , that she might profitute her virtue . All other nations have begun the fabric of a new government , or the reformation of an old , by establishing originally , or by ...
... virtue to her in- terest ; but he has abandoned her interest , that she might profitute her virtue . All other nations have begun the fabric of a new government , or the reformation of an old , by establishing originally , or by ...
Side 58
... virtue and wisdom of a whole people collected into a fo- cus , would pause and hesitate in condemning things even of the very worst aspect . Instead of blameable , they would appear only mysterious . But no name , no power , no function ...
... virtue and wisdom of a whole people collected into a fo- cus , would pause and hesitate in condemning things even of the very worst aspect . Instead of blameable , they would appear only mysterious . But no name , no power , no function ...
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againſt antient authority becauſe Burke cafe caufe cauſe church circumftances civil clergy compofed confequence confider confideration confifcation conftitution courſe crown declaration defcription defpotifm deſtroy difpofition diftinction eftates England Engliſh eſtabliſhed exercife exift exiſtence expence faid fame favour fecurity feems felves fenfe fent ferve fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fituation fociety fome fomething fovereign fpirit France French French Revolution ftate ftill fubject fucceffion fuch fuffer fuppofed fupport fure fyftem Garde du Corps hereditary himſelf houſe inſtead intereft itſelf juftice King laft leaſt lefs legiflators liberty meaſure ment minifters moft monarchy moſt muft muſt National Affembly nature neceffary neceffity Neckar obferve paffed Paris Parliament perfons poffeffed poffible prefent preferve principles puniſhment purpoſe queſtion racter reafon refpect reprefentation reprefentative revenue Revolution ſcheme ſtate thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thouſand tion underſtand uſe whilft whofe whole wiſdom worfe
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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.