Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event, in a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in ParisApollo Press, 1814 - 246 sider |
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... composed of tran- sitory parts ; wherein , by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom , moulding together the great mysterious incorpo- ration of the human race , the whole , at one time , is never old , or middle - aged , or young , but ...
... composed of tran- sitory parts ; wherein , by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom , moulding together the great mysterious incorpo- ration of the human race , the whole , at one time , is never old , or middle - aged , or young , but ...
Side 36
... composed ; you had all that com- bination , and all that opposition of interests , you had that action and counteraction which , in the natural and in the political world , from the reciprocal struggle of discórdant powers , draws out ...
... composed ; you had all that com- bination , and all that opposition of interests , you had that action and counteraction which , in the natural and in the political world , from the reciprocal struggle of discórdant powers , draws out ...
Side 41
... composed , which is of ten thousand times greater consequence than all the formalities in the world . If we were to know nothing of this assembly but by its title and function , no colours could paint to the imagina- tion any thing more ...
... composed , which is of ten thousand times greater consequence than all the formalities in the world . If we were to know nothing of this assembly but by its title and function , no colours could paint to the imagina- tion any thing more ...
Side 42
... composed , any other than God , and nature , and educa- tion , and their habits of life have made them . Capacities beyond these the people have not to give . Virtue and wisdom may be the objects of their choice ; but their choice ...
... composed , any other than God , and nature , and educa- tion , and their habits of life have made them . Capacities beyond these the people have not to give . Virtue and wisdom may be the objects of their choice ; but their choice ...
Side 43
... composed , in point of condition in life , of permanent property , of education , and of such habits as enlarge and liberalize the understanding . In the calling of the states general of France , the first thing which struck me , was a ...
... composed , in point of condition in life , of permanent property , of education , and of such habits as enlarge and liberalize the understanding . In the calling of the states general of France , the first thing which struck me , was a ...
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Side 77 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Side 77 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Side 35 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Side 77 - The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound...
Side 77 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Side 34 - 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...
Side 73 - ... amidst the horrid yells, and shrilling screams, and frantic dances, and infamous contumelies, and all the unutterable abominations of the furies of hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women.
Side 80 - ... paid it with usury, by enlarging their ideas, and by furnishing their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Side 61 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Side 35 - By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.