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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... true , that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings , that if we had possessed it before , the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and ab- dicate it , for themselves and for all their pof- terity for ...
... true , that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings , that if we had possessed it before , the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and ab- dicate it , for themselves and for all their pof- terity for ...
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... true principles of our own domestic laws ; that you , my French friend , should begin to know , and that we should continue to che → rish them . We ought not , on either side of the water , to suffer ourselves to be imposed upon by the ...
... true principles of our own domestic laws ; that you , my French friend , should begin to know , and that we should continue to che → rish them . We ought not , on either side of the water , to suffer ourselves to be imposed upon by the ...
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... true , did speculate foolishly , and perhaps im- piously too , as if monarchy had more of a divine sanction than any other mode of government ; and as if a right to govern by inheritance were in strictness indefeasible in every person ...
... true , did speculate foolishly , and perhaps im- piously too , as if monarchy had more of a divine sanction than any other mode of government ; and as if a right to govern by inheritance were in strictness indefeasible in every person ...
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... true that they are , in the ordinary sense ( by our constitution , at least ) any thing like servants ; the essence of whose situation is to obey the commands of some other , and to be removeable at pleasure . But the king of Great ...
... true that they are , in the ordinary sense ( by our constitution , at least ) any thing like servants ; the essence of whose situation is to obey the commands of some other , and to be removeable at pleasure . But the king of Great ...
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... true an- " tient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this kingdom . " You will observe , that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right , it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our ...
... true an- " tient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this kingdom . " You will observe , that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right , it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our ...
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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.