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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... direct tendency of their doctrines , then equivocations and slippery con- ftructions come into play . When they say the king owes his crown to the choice of his peo- ple , and is therefore the only lawful sovereign in the world , they ...
... direct tendency of their doctrines , then equivocations and slippery con- ftructions come into play . When they say the king owes his crown to the choice of his peo- ple , and is therefore the only lawful sovereign in the world , they ...
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... direct line of hereditary succession . The crown was carried somewhat out of the line in which it had before moved ; but the new line was derived from the fame stock . It was still a line of hereditary descent ; still an hereditary de ...
... direct line of hereditary succession . The crown was carried somewhat out of the line in which it had before moved ; but the new line was derived from the fame stock . It was still a line of hereditary descent ; still an hereditary de ...
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... direct opposition to one of the wisest and most beautiful parts of our constitution , that " a king is no more than the first " fervant of the public , created by it , and respon- fible to it . " " s Ill would our ancestors at the ...
... direct opposition to one of the wisest and most beautiful parts of our constitution , that " a king is no more than the first " fervant of the public , created by it , and respon- fible to it . " " s Ill would our ancestors at the ...
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... direct or indirect , is indeed great ; and long may it be able to preserve its greatness , and the spirit belonging to true greatness , at the full ; and it will do so , as long as it can keep the breakers of law in India from becoming ...
... direct or indirect , is indeed great ; and long may it be able to preserve its greatness , and the spirit belonging to true greatness , at the full ; and it will do so , as long as it can keep the breakers of law in India from becoming ...
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... direct or indirect , to fit the man to the duty . I do not hesitate to say , that the road to emi- nence and power , from obscure condition , ought not to be made too easy , nor a thing too much of course . If rare merit be the rarest ...
... direct or indirect , to fit the man to the duty . I do not hesitate to say , that the road to emi- nence and power , from obscure condition , ought not to be made too easy , nor a thing too much of course . If rare merit be the rarest ...
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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.