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 - 356 ページ |
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... Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions , than ruined by too con- fident a security . Sollicitous chiefly for the peace of my own country , but by no means unconcerned for your's , I wish to communicate more largely , what ...
... Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions , than ruined by too con- fident a security . Sollicitous chiefly for the peace of my own country , but by no means unconcerned for your's , I wish to communicate more largely , what ...
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... better than the rest of the gang of usurpers , who reign , or rather rob , all over the face of this our miserable world , without any sort of right or title to the allegiance of their people . The policy of this general doctrine , so ...
... better than the rest of the gang of usurpers , who reign , or rather rob , all over the face of this our miserable world , without any sort of right or title to the allegiance of their people . The policy of this general doctrine , so ...
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... better whig than Lord Somers ; or to understand the principles of the Revolution better than those by whom it was brought about ; or to read in the declaration of right any misteries unknown to those whose penetrating style has engraved ...
... better whig than Lord Somers ; or to understand the principles of the Revolution better than those by whom it was brought about ; or to read in the declaration of right any misteries unknown to those whose penetrating style has engraved ...
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... better securing the rights and liber- ties of the subject , they provided , " that no " ( sc pardon under the great seal of England " should be pleadable to an impeachment by the " commons in parliament . " The rule laid down for ...
... better securing the rights and liber- ties of the subject , they provided , " that no " ( sc pardon under the great seal of England " should be pleadable to an impeachment by the " commons in parliament . " The rule laid down for ...
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... better remedy against arbitrary power than civil confusion . Let these gentlemen state who that representative public is to whom they will affirm the king , as a servant , to be responsible . It will be then time enough for me to ...
... better remedy against arbitrary power than civil confusion . Let these gentlemen state who that representative public is to whom they will affirm the king , as a servant , to be responsible . It will be then time enough for me to ...
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againſt antient authority becauſe Burke cafe caufe cauſe church circumftances civil clergy compofed confequence confider confideration confifcation conftitution courſe crown declaration defcription defpotifm deſtroy difpofition diftinction eftates England Engliſh eſtabliſhed exercife exift exiſtence expence faid fame favour fecurity feems felves fenfe fent ferve fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fituation fociety fome fomething fovereign fpirit France French French Revolution ftate ftill fubject fucceffion fuch fuffer fuppofed fupport fure fyftem Garde du Corps hereditary himſelf houſe inſtead intereft itſelf juftice King laft leaſt lefs legiflators liberty meaſure ment minifters moft monarchy moſt muft muſt National Affembly nature neceffary neceffity Neckar obferve paffed Paris Parliament perfons poffeffed poffible prefent preferve principles puniſhment purpoſe queſtion racter reafon refpect reprefentation reprefentative revenue Revolution ſcheme ſtate thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thouſand tion underſtand uſe whilft whofe whole wiſdom worfe
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48 ページ - 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...
48 ページ - 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...
57 ページ - ... precarious, tottering power, the discredited paper securities of impoverished fraud, and beggared rapine, held out as a currency for the support of...
69 ページ - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.
87 ページ - 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.
133 ページ - 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?
143 ページ - ... approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
88 ページ - ... civil society be the offspring of convention, that convention must be its law. That convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed under it. Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are its creatures.
49 ページ - By this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a pedigree and illustrating ancestors. It has its bearings and its ensigns armorial. It has its gallery of portraits ; its monumental inscriptions ; its records, evidences, and titles.
115 ページ - I may use the expression, in persons ; so as to create in us love, veneration, admiration, or attachment. But that sort of reason which banishes the affections is incapable of filling their place. These public affections, combined with manners, are required sometimes as supplements, sometimes as correctives, always as aids to law.