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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My errors , if any , are my own . My reputation alone is to answer for them . You
see , Sir , by the long letter I have transmitted to you , that , though I do most
heartily wish that France may be animated by a spirit of B rational rational liberty ,
and ...
My errors , if any , are my own . My reputation alone is to answer for them . You
see , Sir , by the long letter I have transmitted to you , that , though I do most
heartily wish that France may be animated by a spirit of B rational rational liberty ,
and ...
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When the old feudal and chivalrous spirit of Fealty , which , by freeing kings from
fear , freed both kings and subjects from the precautions of tyranny , shall be
extinct in the minds of men , plots and assassinations will be anticipated by ...
When the old feudal and chivalrous spirit of Fealty , which , by freeing kings from
fear , freed both kings and subjects from the precautions of tyranny , shall be
extinct in the minds of men , plots and assassinations will be anticipated by ...
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I will venture to say that this narrow , exclusive spirit has not been less prejudicial
to literature and to taste , than to morals and true philosophy . These Atheistical
fathers have a bigotry of their own ; and they have learnt to talk against monks ...
I will venture to say that this narrow , exclusive spirit has not been less prejudicial
to literature and to taste , than to morals and true philosophy . These Atheistical
fathers have a bigotry of their own ; and they have learnt to talk against monks ...
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A spirit of cabal , intrigue , and proselytisin , pervaded all their thoughts , words ,
and actions . And , as controversial zeal soon turns its thoughts on force , they
began to insinuate themselves into a correspondence with foreign princes ; in ...
A spirit of cabal , intrigue , and proselytisin , pervaded all their thoughts , words ,
and actions . And , as controversial zeal soon turns its thoughts on force , they
began to insinuate themselves into a correspondence with foreign princes ; in ...
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It is but cold , and no very flattering justice to that fallen monarchy , to say , that ,
for many years , it trespassed more by levity and want of judgment in several of its
schemes , than from any defect in diligence or in public spirit . To compare the ...
It is but cold , and no very flattering justice to that fallen monarchy , to say , that ,
for many years , it trespassed more by levity and want of judgment in several of its
schemes , than from any defect in diligence or in public spirit . To compare the ...
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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.
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| 書籍名 | 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 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 第 第 1〜2 号 巻, Edmund Burke |
| 著者 | Edmund Burke |
| 版 | 2 |
| 出版社 | J. Dodsley, 1790 |
| 書籍の提供元 | ニューヨーク公共図書館 |
| デジタル化された日 | 2007年3月23日 |
| ページ数 | 356 ページ |
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