Reflections on the Revolution in France, Tomy 1-2J. Sharpe, 1821 - 345 |
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... scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind . Abstractedly speaking , go- vernment , as well as liberty , is good ; yet could I , in common sense , ten years ago , have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government ( for she then had ...
... scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind . Abstractedly speaking , go- vernment , as well as liberty , is good ; yet could I , in common sense , ten years ago , have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government ( for she then had ...
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... scheme of 66 cashiering kings for misconduct . ” In that light it is worth some observation . Kings , in one sense , are undoubtedly the ser- vants of the people , because their power has no other rational end than that of the general ...
... scheme of 66 cashiering kings for misconduct . ” In that light it is worth some observation . Kings , in one sense , are undoubtedly the ser- vants of the people , because their power has no other rational end than that of the general ...
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... scheme of politics re- lative to this country , in which your proceedings may , in some way , be useful . For your Dr. Price , who seems to have speculated himself into no small degree of fervor upon this subject , addresses his ...
... scheme of politics re- lative to this country , in which your proceedings may , in some way , be useful . For your Dr. Price , who seems to have speculated himself into no small degree of fervor upon this subject , addresses his ...
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... from the ill effects it pro- duces in the beginning . The reverse also happens ; and very plausible schemes , with very pleasing commencements , have often shameful and lament- able conclusions . 84 BURKE'S REFLECTIONS .
... from the ill effects it pro- duces in the beginning . The reverse also happens ; and very plausible schemes , with very pleasing commencements , have often shameful and lament- able conclusions . 84 BURKE'S REFLECTIONS .
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... schemes of politics not adapted to the state of the world in which they live , they often come to think lightly of all public principle ; and are ready , on their part , to abandon for a very trivial interest what they find of very ...
... schemes of politics not adapted to the state of the world in which they live , they often come to think lightly of all public principle ; and are ready , on their part , to abandon for a very trivial interest what they find of very ...
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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
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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