Reflections on the Revolution in France, Tomy 1-2J. Sharpe, 1821 - 345 |
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... sure that it never occupied a moment of my thoughts , nor , I believe , those of any person out of their own set . I find , upon inquiry , that on the anniversary of the revolution in 1688 , a club of dissenters , but of what ...
... sure that it never occupied a moment of my thoughts , nor , I believe , those of any person out of their own set . I find , upon inquiry , that on the anniversary of the revolution in 1688 , a club of dissenters , but of what ...
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... sure , before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing , that they have really received one . Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver ; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings . I should ...
... sure , before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing , that they have really received one . Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver ; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings . I should ...
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... sure , all the beginners of dynasties were chosen by those who called them to govern . There is ground enough for the opinion that all the kingdoms of Europe were , at a remote period , elect- ive , with more or fewer limitations in the ...
... sure , all the beginners of dynasties were chosen by those who called them to govern . There is ground enough for the opinion that all the kingdoms of Europe were , at a remote period , elect- ive , with more or fewer limitations in the ...
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... sure inheritance to be scrambled for and torn to pieces by every wild litigious spirit . The same policy pervades all the laws which have since been made for the preservation of our liber- ties . In the 1st of William and Mary , in the ...
... sure inheritance to be scrambled for and torn to pieces by every wild litigious spirit . The same policy pervades all the laws which have since been made for the preservation of our liber- ties . In the 1st of William and Mary , in the ...
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... sure principle of conserva- tion , and a sure principle of transmission ; without at all excluding a principle of improvement . It leaves acquisition free ; but it secures what it ac- quires . Whatever advantages are obtained by a state ...
... sure principle of conserva- tion , and a sure principle of transmission ; without at all excluding a principle of improvement . It leaves acquisition free ; but it secures what it ac- quires . Whatever advantages are obtained by a state ...
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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,
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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