Reflections on the Revolution in FranceClarendon Press, 1898 - 384 |
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Strona v
... interest , yet no book in the world has more historical significance . It scorns and defies philosophy , but it discloses a compact and unique system of its It tramples on logic , yet carries home to the most logical reader a conviction ...
... interest , yet no book in the world has more historical significance . It scorns and defies philosophy , but it discloses a compact and unique system of its It tramples on logic , yet carries home to the most logical reader a conviction ...
Strona ix
... interests it involved . Burke , in the unfavourable impression which he conceived of the Revolution , was outside of both parties . He could find no audience in the House of Commons , where leading politicians had long looked askance ...
... interests it involved . Burke , in the unfavourable impression which he conceived of the Revolution , was outside of both parties . He could find no audience in the House of Commons , where leading politicians had long looked askance ...
Strona xi
... interests which time and usage had legalised was too strong to give way to a moderate pressure . A convulsion , a mighty shock , a disturbance of normal forces , was necessary : and the French people had long been collecting themselves ...
... interests which time and usage had legalised was too strong to give way to a moderate pressure . A convulsion , a mighty shock , a disturbance of normal forces , was necessary : and the French people had long been collecting themselves ...
Strona xxxii
... Interest never lies , The most have still their interest in their eyes , The power is always theirs , and power is ever wise . Almighty crowd ! thou shortenest all dispute , Power is thy essence , wit thy attribute : Nor faith nor ...
... Interest never lies , The most have still their interest in their eyes , The power is always theirs , and power is ever wise . Almighty crowd ! thou shortenest all dispute , Power is thy essence , wit thy attribute : Nor faith nor ...
Strona xxxiii
... interest derived from a sense of identity upon the events or products of the past . Continental critics have , as might be expected , traced the love of the English for the English past to a narrow insularity . They ought also to point ...
... interest derived from a sense of identity upon the events or products of the past . Continental critics have , as might be expected , traced the love of the English for the English past to a narrow insularity . They ought also to point ...
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