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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... Virtue and wisdom may be the objects of their choice ; but their choice confers neither the one nor the other on those upon whom they lay their ordaining hands . They have not the engagement of nature , they have not the promise of ...
... Virtue and wisdom may be the objects of their choice ; but their choice confers neither the one nor the other on those upon whom they lay their ordaining hands . They have not the engagement of nature , they have not the promise of ...
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... virtues of such men were to be taken as a balance to their crimes ; but they were some corrective to their effects . Such ... virtue , all the rewards , all the distinctions , remained . But your present con- fusion , like a palsy , has ...
... virtues of such men were to be taken as a balance to their crimes ; but they were some corrective to their effects . Such ... virtue , all the rewards , all the distinctions , remained . But your present con- fusion , like a palsy , has ...
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... book be canonical , as the Gallican church ( till lately ) has confidered it , or apocryphal , as here it is taken . I am fure it contains a great deal of fenfe , and truth , ment , ment , but virtue and wisdom , actual or presump- ( 73 )
... book be canonical , as the Gallican church ( till lately ) has confidered it , or apocryphal , as here it is taken . I am fure it contains a great deal of fenfe , and truth , ment , ment , but virtue and wisdom , actual or presump- ( 73 )
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... virtue and wisdom , actual or presump- tive . Wherever they are actually sound , they have , in whatever state ... virtue , let it be remembered too , that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty , and fome ftruggle . Nothing is a ...
... virtue and wisdom , actual or presump- tive . Wherever they are actually sound , they have , in whatever state ... virtue , let it be remembered too , that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty , and fome ftruggle . Nothing is a ...
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... virtue of natural rights , which may and do exist in total inde-- pendence of it ; and exist in much greater clearness , and in a much greater degree of abstract perfection : but their abstract perfec tion is their practical defect . By ...
... virtue of natural rights , which may and do exist in total inde-- pendence of it ; and exist in much greater clearness , and in a much greater degree of abstract perfection : but their abstract perfec tion is their practical defect . By ...
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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.