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 |
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... abundant choice which our own country presented to them , and searched in
strange lands for a foreign princess , from whose womb the line of our future
rulers were to derive their title to govern millions of men through a series of ages
?
... abundant choice which our own country presented to them , and searched in
strange lands for a foreign princess , from whose womb the line of our future
rulers were to derive their title to govern millions of men through a series of ages
?
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The clergy in the old provinces did not pay the capitation ; but they had redeemed
themselves at the expence of about 24 millions , or a little more than a million
sterling . They were exempted from the twentieths ; but then they made free gifts ...
The clergy in the old provinces did not pay the capitation ; but they had redeemed
themselves at the expence of about 24 millions , or a little more than a million
sterling . They were exempted from the twentieths ; but then they made free gifts ...
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... voluminous , by me , nor do I know where to procure them ( I am obliged to
speak by memory , and therefore the less positively ) but I think the population of
France was by them , even at that period , estimated at wenty - two millions of
souls .
... voluminous , by me , nor do I know where to procure them ( I am obliged to
speak by memory , and therefore the less positively ) but I think the population of
France was by them , even at that period , estimated at wenty - two millions of
souls .
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If Dr. Price should think fit , a sew years hence , to favour us with an estimate of
the population of France , he will hardly be able to make up his tale of thirty
millions of souls , as computed in 1789 , or the assembly's computation of twenty
- six ...
If Dr. Price should think fit , a sew years hence , to favour us with an estimate of
the population of France , he will hardly be able to make up his tale of thirty
millions of souls , as computed in 1789 , or the assembly's computation of twenty
- six ...
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M. de la Fayette made a verbal charge against Calonne , for selling crown lands
to the amount of two millions of livres , in a manner that appeared to be unknown
to the King . The Count D'Artois ( as if to intimidate , for the Bastille was then in ...
M. de la Fayette made a verbal charge against Calonne , for selling crown lands
to the amount of two millions of livres , in a manner that appeared to be unknown
to the King . The Count D'Artois ( as if to intimidate , for the Bastille was then in ...
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46 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...
46 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...
55 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...
67 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.
85 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.
131 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?
141 ページ - ... approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
86 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.
47 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.
113 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.