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 Paris, Oplag 1–2J. Dodsley, 1790 - 364 sider |
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Side 1
... shall I in this . My errors , if any , are my own . My reputation alone is to answer for them . You 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 ...
... shall I in this . My errors , if any , are my own . My reputation alone is to answer for them . You 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 ...
Side 2
... to depart from the firm but cautious and deliberate spirit which pro- duced the one , and which presides in the other . Before I proceed to answer the more material particulars particulars in your letter , I shall beg leave to ( 2 )
... to depart from the firm but cautious and deliberate spirit which pro- duced the one , and which presides in the other . Before I proceed to answer the more material particulars particulars in your letter , I shall beg leave to ( 2 )
Side 3
... shall beg leave to give you such information as I have been able to obtain of the two clubs which have thought proper , as bodies , to interfere in the concerns of France ; first assuring you , that I am not , and that I have never been ...
... shall beg leave to give you such information as I have been able to obtain of the two clubs which have thought proper , as bodies , to interfere in the concerns of France ; first assuring you , that I am not , and that I have never been ...
Side 5
... shall speak of nothing as of a certainty , but what is public . For one , I should be sorry to be thought , directly or indirectly , concerned in their pro- ceedings . I certainly take my full share , along with the rest of the world ...
... shall speak of nothing as of a certainty , but what is public . For one , I should be sorry to be thought , directly or indirectly , concerned in their pro- ceedings . I certainly take my full share , along with the rest of the world ...
Side 11
... shall still keep your af- fairs in my eye , and continue to address myself to you . Indulging myself in the freedom of epistolary intercourse , I beg leave to throw out my thoughts , and express my feelings , just as they arise in my ...
... shall still keep your af- fairs in my eye , and continue to address myself to you . Indulging myself in the freedom of epistolary intercourse , I beg leave to throw out my thoughts , and express my feelings , just as they arise in my ...
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affignats againſt antient authority becauſe cafe canton caufe cauſe chooſe church civil clergy compofed confequence confider confiderable confifcation conftitution courſe crown defcription deftroy difpofition diftinction eftates election England eſtabliſhment exerciſe exift exiſtence faid fame favour fcheme fecurity feem felves fenfe fentiments ferve fettled fhall fhew fhould firft firſt fituation fociety fome fomething fometimes foon fovereign fpeculations fpirit France ftate ftill fubject fucceffion fuch fuffer fupport fure fyftem greateſt himſelf honour houſe inftitutions inftruments intereft itſelf juft juftice king leaſt lefs legiflators liberty meaſure ment mind minifters moft moſt muft muſt national affembly nature neceffary neceffity obferve occafions Old Jewry paffed Paris perfons poffeffed poffible political prefent preferve principles puniſhment purpoſes queſtion reafon refpect religion reprefentative repreſentation revenue Revolution ſtate thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion truft underſtanding uſe virtue whilft whofe whole wifdom 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 117 - Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have in this European world of ours depended for ages upon two principles, and were indeed the result of both combined: I mean the spirit of a gentleman and the spirit of religion.
Side 246 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Side 113 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Side 47 - You will observe, that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Side 135 - We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is by his constitution a religious animal; that atheism is against, not only our reason, but our instincts; and that it cannot prevail long. But if, in the moment of riot, and in a drunken delirium from the hot spirit drawn out of the alembic of hell...
Side 112 - I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men...
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 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 205 - He feels no ennobling principle in his own heart who wishes to level all the artificial institutions which have been adopted for giving a body to opinion and permanence to fugitive esteem.