Reflections on the Revolution in FranceMacmillan, 1890 - 484 pages |
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... force . Kings are by their position shut out from all knowledge of their subjects , and from all community of interest with them . The subjects become mere instruments for gratifying the passions of the monarch , or for serving family ...
... force . Kings are by their position shut out from all knowledge of their subjects , and from all community of interest with them . The subjects become mere instruments for gratifying the passions of the monarch , or for serving family ...
Page xxxi
... force or in fraud . Since every citizen is a member of the sovereignty , and , as such , can acknowledge no personal subjection , his obedience being only to the laws , it follows that a general revolution in the principle and ...
... force or in fraud . Since every citizen is a member of the sovereignty , and , as such , can acknowledge no personal subjection , his obedience being only to the laws , it follows that a general revolution in the principle and ...
Page xxxiii
... force of the community is to be employed for the benefit of the community . Taxation is the business of the whole community . All the agents of the community are responsible to it . No man can be deprived of his property except in cases ...
... force of the community is to be employed for the benefit of the community . Taxation is the business of the whole community . All the agents of the community are responsible to it . No man can be deprived of his property except in cases ...
Page xliii
... force , have become so deeply rooted in his nature . He hoped in this way to arrive at the sentiments which are really natural and primitive , and from them to deduce the natural or justifiable type of society and of law . He wanted to ...
... force , have become so deeply rooted in his nature . He hoped in this way to arrive at the sentiments which are really natural and primitive , and from them to deduce the natural or justifiable type of society and of law . He wanted to ...
Page xliv
... force prior to law . Prior to law , too , resentment was not aggravated by the sense of injustice , injury , and wrong . There were no disputes about property . Disputes about women would be few . For physical desire was not , as now ...
... force prior to law . Prior to law , too , resentment was not aggravated by the sense of injustice , injury , and wrong . There were no disputes about property . Disputes about women would be few . For physical desire was not , as now ...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France Edmund Burke,Alan Wolfe,Darrin M. McMahon,Conor Cruise O'Brien,Jack N. Rakove No preview available - 2003 |
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Page 85 - 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. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Page 475 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house: and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 36 - 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 84 - ... 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 84 - 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 splendor, and joy.
Page 36 - 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 85 - All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason; all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off...
Page 107 - Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts, for objects of mere occasional interest, may be dissolved at pleasure ; but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Page 97 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason ; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages.
Page 385 - Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.