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 - 364 sider |
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Side 53
... clergy ; a mitigated but spirited nobility , to lead your 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 ...
... clergy ; a mitigated but spirited nobility , to lead your 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 ...
Side 67
... clergy . There too it appeared , that full as little regard was had to the general security of property , or to the ap- titude of the deputies for their public purposes , in the principles of their election . That election was so ...
... clergy . There too it appeared , that full as little regard was had to the general security of property , or to the ap- titude of the deputies for their public purposes , in the principles of their election . That election was so ...
Side 68
... clergy as I have described , whilst it ' pursued the destruction of the nobility , would inevitably become subservient to the worst de- figns of individuals in that class . In the spoil and humiliation of their own order these indi ...
... clergy as I have described , whilst it ' pursued the destruction of the nobility , would inevitably become subservient to the worst de- figns of individuals in that class . In the spoil and humiliation of their own order these indi ...
Side 117
... clergy , the one by profef- fion , the other by patronage , kept learning in existence , even in the midst of arms and confu- fions , and whilst governments were rather in their causes than formed . Learning paid back what it received ...
... clergy , the one by profef- fion , the other by patronage , kept learning in existence , even in the midst of arms and confu- fions , and whilst governments were rather in their causes than formed . Learning paid back what it received ...
Side 150
... clergy into ecclesiastical pensioners of state . They tremble for their liberty , from the influence of a clergy dependent on the crown ; they tremble for the public tranquillity from the disorders of a factious clergy , if it were made ...
... clergy into ecclesiastical pensioners of state . They tremble for their liberty , from the influence of a clergy dependent on the crown ; they tremble for the public tranquillity from the disorders of a factious clergy , if it were made ...
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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.