Reflections on the Revolution in FranceLiberal Arts Press, 1955 - 307 |
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... Respecting your forefathers , you would have been taught to respect yourselves . You would not have chosen to consider the French as a people of yesterday , as a nation of low - born servile wretches until the emancipating year of 1789 ...
... Respecting your forefathers , you would have been taught to respect yourselves . You would not have chosen to consider the French as a people of yesterday , as a nation of low - born servile wretches until the emancipating year of 1789 ...
Strona 158
... respects the landed noblesse of France were worse than the landed gentry of this country , certainly in no respect more vexatious than the landholders , not noble , of their own nation . In cities the nobility had no manner of power ...
... respects the landed noblesse of France were worse than the landed gentry of this country , certainly in no respect more vexatious than the landholders , not noble , of their own nation . In cities the nobility had no manner of power ...
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... respect due to the laws , to the king , to the order established by your de- crees , and to the oaths which they have taken with the most awful solemnity . Compelled by my duty to give you infor- mation of these excesses , my heart ...
... respect due to the laws , to the king , to the order established by your de- crees , and to the oaths which they have taken with the most awful solemnity . Compelled by my duty to give you infor- mation of these excesses , my heart ...
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