Reflections on the Revolution in France, Tomy 1-2J. Sharpe, 1821 - 345 |
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... kings . I should therefore suspend my congratulations on the new liberty of France , until I was informed how it had been combined with government ; with public force ; with the dis- cipline and obedience of armies ; with the collec ...
... kings . I should therefore suspend my congratulations on the new liberty of France , until I was informed how it had been combined with government ; with public force ; with the dis- cipline and obedience of armies ; with the collec ...
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... king's own chapel at St. James's ring with the honour and pri- vilege of the saints , who , with the " high praises ... kings with chains , and their nobles with fet- ters of iron . " * Few harangues from the pulpit , except in the days ...
... king's own chapel at St. James's ring with the honour and pri- vilege of the saints , who , with the " high praises ... kings with chains , and their nobles with fet- ters of iron . " * Few harangues from the pulpit , except in the days ...
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... king in the world , because the only one who owes his crown to the choice of his people , " As to the kings of the world , all of whom , except one , this arch - pontiff of the rights of men , with all the plenitude , and with more than ...
... king in the world , because the only one who owes his crown to the choice of his people , " As to the kings of the world , all of whom , except one , this arch - pontiff of the rights of men , with all the plenitude , and with more than ...
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... king owes his crown to the choice of his people , and is therefore the only lawful sovereign in the world , they will perhaps tell us they mean to say no more than that some of the king's predecessors have been called to the throne by ...
... king owes his crown to the choice of his people , and is therefore the only lawful sovereign in the world , they will perhaps tell us they mean to say no more than that some of the king's predecessors have been called to the throne by ...
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... kings might have been here or elsewhere , a thousand years ago , or in whatever manner the ruling dynasties of England or France may have begun , the king of Great Bri- tain is at this day king by a fixed rule of succession , according ...
... kings might have been here or elsewhere , a thousand years ago , or in whatever manner the ruling dynasties of England or France may have begun , the king of Great Bri- tain is at this day king by a fixed rule of succession , according ...
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Strona 125 - partnership in things subservient only to the gross ' animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature : 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
Strona 28 - That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself all this guard, and all this accumulation of circumstances, serves to show the spirit of
Strona 125 - 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;
Strona 126 - the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed place. This law is not subject to the will of those,
Strona 30 - limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject, they provided, " that no pardon under the great seal of England should be. pleadable to an impeachment by the commons in parliament.
Strona 96 - 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
Strona 116 - amongst us. This disposition still remains, at least in the great body of the people. • " We know, and, what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.* In England we are so convinced of this, that there is no rust • Sit igitur hoc
Strona 73 - have a right to live by that rule; they have a right to justice; as between their fellows, whether their fellows are in politic function or in ordinary occupation. They have a right to the fruits of their industry, and to the means of making their industry fruitful. They have
Strona 98 - and without distinct views, is to be regarded as romance and folly. Regicide, and parricide, and sacrilege, are but fictions of superstition, corrupting jurisprudence by destroying its simplicity. The murder of a king, or a queen, or a bishop, or a father, are only common homicide; and if the people are by any chance,
Strona 162 - of their minds. They must respect that property of which they cannot partake. They must labour to obtain what by labour can be obtained; and when they find, as they commonly do, the success disproportioned to the endeavour, they must be taught their consolation in the final proportions of eternal justice. Of this consolation, whoever