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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It is right that these men should hide their heads . It is right that they should bear
their part in the ruin which their counsel has brought on their sovereign and their
country . Such sanguine declarations tend to lull authority asleep ; to encourage ...
It is right that these men should hide their heads . It is right that they should bear
their part in the ruin which their counsel has brought on their sovereign and their
country . Such sanguine declarations tend to lull authority asleep ; to encourage ...
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Against these there can be no prescription ; against these no agreement is
binding : these admit no temperament , and no compromise : any thing withheld
from their full demand is so much of fraud and injustice . Against these their rights
of ...
Against these there can be no prescription ; against these no agreement is
binding : these admit no temperament , and no compromise : any thing withheld
from their full demand is so much of fraud and injustice . Against these their rights
of ...
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... edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common
purposes of society , or of building it up again , without having models and
patterns of approved utility before his eyes . These metaphysic rights entering
into common ...
... edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common
purposes of society , or of building it up again , without having models and
patterns of approved utility before his eyes . These metaphysic rights entering
into common ...
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I am as incapable of that injustice , as I am of keeping terms with those who
profess principles of extremes ; and who under the name of religion teach little
else than wild and dangerous politics . The worst of these poli . tics of revolution
is this ...
I am as incapable of that injustice , as I am of keeping terms with those who
profess principles of extremes ; and who under the name of religion teach little
else than wild and dangerous politics . The worst of these poli . tics of revolution
is this ...
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Among these are found persons , in comparison of whom Catiline would be
thought scrupulous , and Cethegus a man of sobriety and moderation . Nor is it in
these clubs alone that the publick measures are deformed into monsters .
Among these are found persons , in comparison of whom Catiline would be
thought scrupulous , and Cethegus a man of sobriety and moderation . Nor is it in
these clubs alone that the publick measures are deformed into monsters .
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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.