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 17
... interest of some moment , seriously to consider the solidity of the only prin- ciple upon which these gentlemen acknowledge a king of Great Britain to be entitled to their allegiance . This doctrine , as applied to the prince now on the ...
... interest of some moment , seriously to consider the solidity of the only prin- ciple upon which these gentlemen acknowledge a king of Great Britain to be entitled to their allegiance . This doctrine , as applied to the prince now on the ...
Side 28
... interest under their engagaments , as much as the whole state is bound to keep its faith with separate com- munities . Otherwise competence and power would soon be confounded , and no law be left but the will of a prevailing force . On ...
... interest under their engagaments , as much as the whole state is bound to keep its faith with separate com- munities . Otherwise competence and power would soon be confounded , and no law be left but the will of a prevailing force . On ...
Side 50
... composed ; you had all that combination , and all that oppo- fition of interests , you had that action and coun- teraction which , in the natural and in the poli- 3 tical tical world , from the reciprocal struggle of dif- cordant ( 50 )
... composed ; you had all that combination , and all that oppo- fition of interests , you had that action and coun- teraction which , in the natural and in the poli- 3 tical tical world , from the reciprocal struggle of dif- cordant ( 50 )
Side 51
... interests , which you considered as so great a blemish in your old and in our present constitution , interpose a salutary check to all precipitate resolutions ; They render deliberation a matter not of choice , but of necessity ; they ...
... interests , which you considered as so great a blemish in your old and in our present constitution , interpose a salutary check to all precipitate resolutions ; They render deliberation a matter not of choice , but of necessity ; they ...
Side 54
... interest , that she might prostitute her virtue . All other nations have begun the fabric of a new government , or the reformation of an old , by establishing originally , or by enforcing with greater exactness some rites or other of ...
... interest , that she might prostitute her virtue . All other nations have begun the fabric of a new government , or the reformation of an old , by establishing originally , or by enforcing with greater exactness some rites or other of ...
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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.