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... character of defpatifm infinuated itfelf into every court of Europe the fame ( pirit of disproportion ed magnificence the fame love of standing ar nies , above the ability of the people . In mies , 6 SUBSTANCE OF THE SPEECH.
... character of defpatifm infinuated itfelf into every court of Europe the fame ( pirit of disproportion ed magnificence the fame love of standing ar nies , above the ability of the people . In mies , 6 SUBSTANCE OF THE SPEECH.
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... upon that example . It exifts no longer . Our prefent danger from the example of a people , whole character knows no medium , is , with re- gard * gard to government , a danger from anarchy ; ON THE ARMY ESTIMATES , 1790 :
... upon that example . It exifts no longer . Our prefent danger from the example of a people , whole character knows no medium , is , with re- gard * gard to government , a danger from anarchy ; ON THE ARMY ESTIMATES , 1790 :
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... character of citi- zen and foldier . But as applied to the events which had happened in France , where the abstract principle was cloathed with its circumftances , he thought that his friend would agree with him , that what was done ...
... character of citi- zen and foldier . But as applied to the events which had happened in France , where the abstract principle was cloathed with its circumftances , he thought that his friend would agree with him , that what was done ...
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... character and fentiments , in order to derive a credit to their destructive machinations . Mr. Sheridan then rofe ... characters as thofe of the Marquis de la Fayette and Mr. Bailly . Mr. Burke faid , that he did not libel the national ...
... character and fentiments , in order to derive a credit to their destructive machinations . Mr. Sheridan then rofe ... characters as thofe of the Marquis de la Fayette and Mr. Bailly . Mr. Burke faid , that he did not libel the national ...
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... character , to affume what does not belong to them , are , for the greater part , ignorant both of the character they leave , and of the character they affume . Wholly unac- quainted with the world in which they are fo fond of meddling ...
... character , to affume what does not belong to them , are , for the greater part , ignorant both of the character they leave , and of the character they affume . Wholly unac- quainted with the world in which they are fo fond of meddling ...
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Page 135 - By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that, by their poisonous weeds and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life.
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Page 58 - 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 liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Page 97 - This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man, that they have totally forgot his nature. Without opening one new avenue to the understanding, they have succeeded in stopping up those that lead to the heart. They have perverted in themselves, and in those that attend to them, all the well-placed sympathies of the human breast.
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