Reflections on the revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that eventJ. Dodsley, 1790 - 364 oldal |
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36. oldal
... suppose you engaged , whenever you defend the inheritable nature of the crown . It is common with them to dispute as if they were in a conflict with fome of those exploded fanatics of flavery , who formerly maintained , what I believe ...
... suppose you engaged , whenever you defend the inheritable nature of the crown . It is common with them to dispute as if they were in a conflict with fome of those exploded fanatics of flavery , who formerly maintained , what I believe ...
88. oldal
... suppose its exiftence ? Rights which are absolutely repugnant to it ? One of the first motives to civil society , and which becomes one of its fundamental rules , is , that no man should be judge in his own caufe . By this each perfon ...
... suppose its exiftence ? Rights which are absolutely repugnant to it ? One of the first motives to civil society , and which becomes one of its fundamental rules , is , that no man should be judge in his own caufe . By this each perfon ...
177. oldal
... suppose that the deficiency had re- mained at the 56 millions , ( or £ . 2,200,000 fter- ling ) as at first stated by Mr. Necker . Let us allow that all the resources he opposed to that deficiency were impudent and groundless fictions ...
... suppose that the deficiency had re- mained at the 56 millions , ( or £ . 2,200,000 fter- ling ) as at first stated by Mr. Necker . Let us allow that all the resources he opposed to that deficiency were impudent and groundless fictions ...
187. oldal
... suppose it to have , and admitting it to poffefs as much good in it when unmixed , as I am sure it possesses when compounded with other forms ; does monarchy , on its part , contain nothing at all to recommend it ? I do not often quote ...
... suppose it to have , and admitting it to poffefs as much good in it when unmixed , as I am sure it possesses when compounded with other forms ; does monarchy , on its part , contain nothing at all to recommend it ? I do not often quote ...
191. oldal
... king- dom , and exhibited in some particular places fuch * De l'Administration des Finances de la France , par Monf . Necker , vol . i . p . 288 . : prodigies prodigies of population . I never will suppose that fabrick ( 191 )
... king- dom , and exhibited in some particular places fuch * De l'Administration des Finances de la France , par Monf . Necker , vol . i . p . 288 . : prodigies prodigies of population . I never will suppose that fabrick ( 191 )
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48. oldal - 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...
89. oldal - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
13. oldal - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
128. oldal - In England we have not yet been completely embowelled of our natural entrails : we still feel within us, and we cherish and cultivate, those inbred sentiments which are the faithful guardians, the active monitors of our duty, the true supporters of all liberal and manly morals.
115. oldal - Regicide, and parricide, and sacrilege, are but fictions of superstition, corrupting jurisprudence by destroying its simplicity. The murder of a king, or a queen, or a bishop, or a father, are only common homicide ; and if the people are by any chance, or in any way, gainers by it, a sort of homicide much the most pardonable, and into which we ought not to make too severe a scrutiny.
48. oldal - By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.
250. oldal - Political arrangement, as it is a work for social ends, is to be only wrought by social means. There mind must conspire with mind. Time is required to produce that union of minds which alone can produce all the good we aim at. Our patience will achieve more than our force.
113. oldal - It was this which, without confounding ranks, had produced a noble equality, and handed it down through all the gradations of social life. It was this opinion which mitigated kings into companions, and raised private men to be fellows with kings.
49. oldal - 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.
90. oldal - ... it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes.