Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event, in a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in ParisApollo Press, 1814 - 246 pages |
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... virtue and wisdom , beyond the vulgar practice of the hour : and you would have risen with the example to whose imitation you aspired . Re- specting your forefathers , you would have been taught to respect yourselves . You would not ...
... virtue and wisdom , beyond the vulgar practice of the hour : and you would have risen with the example to whose imitation you aspired . Re- specting your forefathers , you would have been taught to respect yourselves . You would not ...
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... virtue , not to overlay it ; you would have had a liberal order of commons , to emulate and recruit that nobility ; you would have had a protected , satisfied , labo- rious , and obedient people , taught to seek , and to recog- nise the ...
... virtue , not to overlay it ; you would have had a liberal order of commons , to emulate and recruit that nobility ; you would have had a protected , satisfied , labo- rious , and obedient people , taught to seek , and to recog- nise the ...
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... virtue to her interest , but she has abandoned her interest that she might prostitute her virtue . All other nations have begun the fabric of a new government , or the reformation of an old , by establishing originally , or by enforcing ...
... virtue to her interest , but she has abandoned her interest that she might prostitute her virtue . All other nations have begun the fabric of a new government , or the reformation of an old , by establishing originally , or by enforcing ...
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... virtue and wisdom of a whole people collected into a focus , would pause and hesitate in condemning things even of the very worst aspect . Instead of blameable , they would appear only mysterious . But no name , no power , no function ...
... virtue and wisdom of a whole people collected into a focus , would pause and hesitate in condemning things even of the very worst aspect . Instead of blameable , they would appear only mysterious . But no name , no power , no function ...
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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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Page 77 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Page 77 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 35 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 77 - The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound...
Page 77 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 34 - 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...
Page 73 - ... amidst the horrid yells, and shrilling screams, and frantic dances, and infamous contumelies, and all the unutterable abominations of the furies of hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women.
Page 80 - ... paid it with usury, by enlarging their ideas, and by furnishing their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Page 61 - 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.
Page 35 - 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.