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. By the Right Honourable Edmund BurkeJ. Dodsley, 1791 - 364 sider |
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... perhaps I have given as good proofs of my attachment . to that cause , in the whole course of my public conduct . I think I envy liberty as little as they do , to any other nation . But I cannot ftand for- ward , and give praise or ...
... perhaps I have given as good proofs of my attachment . to that cause , in the whole course of my public conduct . I think I envy liberty as little as they do , to any other nation . But I cannot ftand for- ward , and give praise or ...
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... perhaps of more than Europe . All circumstances taken together , the French revo- lution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world . The most wonderful things are brought about in many instances by means the most ...
... perhaps of more than Europe . All circumstances taken together , the French revo- lution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world . The most wonderful things are brought about in many instances by means the most ...
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... perhaps tell us they mean to fay no more than that fome of the king's predeceffors have been called to the throne by fome fort of choice ; and therefore he owes his crown to the choice of his people . Thus , by a miferable fubterfuge ...
... perhaps tell us they mean to fay no more than that fome of the king's predeceffors have been called to the throne by fome fort of choice ; and therefore he owes his crown to the choice of his people . Thus , by a miferable fubterfuge ...
Side 27
... perhaps impoffible , to give limits to the mere abstract competence of the fupreme power , fuch as was exercised by parliament at that time ; but the limits of a moral competence , fubjecting , even in powers more indifputably fovereign ...
... perhaps impoffible , to give limits to the mere abstract competence of the fupreme power , fuch as was exercised by parliament at that time ; but the limits of a moral competence , fubjecting , even in powers more indifputably fovereign ...
Side 30
... perhaps , did the fovereign legislature ma- nifeft a more tender regard to that fundamen- tal principle of British conftitutional policy , than at the time of the Revolution , when it deviated from the direct line of hereditary ...
... perhaps , did the fovereign legislature ma- nifeft a more tender regard to that fundamen- tal principle of British conftitutional policy , than at the time of the Revolution , when it deviated from the direct line of hereditary ...
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Side 45 - 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 13 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Side 113 - 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 46 - 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 46 - 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 109 - 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 245 - 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 8 - Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered?
Side 109 - This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry; and the principle, though varied in its appearance by the varying state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced through a long succession of generations, even to the time we live in.
Side 85 - Men have a right to live by that rule ; they have a right to do justice, as between their fellows, whether their fellows are in politic function or in ordinary occupation. They have a right to the fruits of their industry, and to the means of making their industry fruitful.