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... thing than that the Revolution of 1688 was ' a revolution not made , but prevented . ' The vast convulsions of 1789 and the following years were ill - understood by the Foxite Whigs . Pent in their own narrow circle , they could form no ...
... thing than that the Revolution of 1688 was ' a revolution not made , but prevented . ' The vast convulsions of 1789 and the following years were ill - understood by the Foxite Whigs . Pent in their own narrow circle , they could form no ...
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... thing more was possible than had hitherto been practised in modern English policy . Democracy had grown from a possibility into a power . Whiggism , as a principle , had long been distrusted and discredited . With its decline had begun ...
... thing more was possible than had hitherto been practised in modern English policy . Democracy had grown from a possibility into a power . Whiggism , as a principle , had long been distrusted and discredited . With its decline had begun ...
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... thing or a bad thing conveys no useful idea . Either may be said with some degree of truth , but neither can be said without qualifications which almost neutralise the primary thesis . student of history by this time needs to be told ...
... thing or a bad thing conveys no useful idea . Either may be said with some degree of truth , but neither can be said without qualifications which almost neutralise the primary thesis . student of history by this time needs to be told ...
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... thing of the same kind was prevalent in England ; but it belonged to a narrower class , with narrower motives and meaner ends . From his earliest years Burke had been familiar with the idea of a nation of human savages rising in revolt ...
... thing of the same kind was prevalent in England ; but it belonged to a narrower class , with narrower motives and meaner ends . From his earliest years Burke had been familiar with the idea of a nation of human savages rising in revolt ...
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... things in shew , though not indeed repugnant and contrary one to another , requireth more sharpness of wit , more ... thing before him . The following passage of Hooker strikingly reminds the reader of a mode of argument frequently ...
... things in shew , though not indeed repugnant and contrary one to another , requireth more sharpness of wit , more ... thing before him . The following passage of Hooker strikingly reminds the reader of a mode of argument frequently ...
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Page 89 - 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.
Page 89 - 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 xxix - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Page 70 - 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 be frequently thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Page 13 - 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.
Page 39 - 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...
Page 114 - As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead and those who are to be born. Each contract of each particular State is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical...
Page 39 - Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
Page 114 - It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Page 113 - 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. It is to be looked on with other reverence; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary...