Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 35William Blackwood, 1834 - England |
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... Jacobin club as its sovereigns ; and the calculation was carried into effect , with the most unswerving adherence to the great Jacobin law of massacre . As the Revolution advanced , its doe- trines grew more undisguised ; the rapidity ...
... Jacobin club as its sovereigns ; and the calculation was carried into effect , with the most unswerving adherence to the great Jacobin law of massacre . As the Revolution advanced , its doe- trines grew more undisguised ; the rapidity ...
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... Jacobin Club . Too malignant to suffer royalty to perish without a wound from his hand , yet too feeble to strike the mortal blow himself , he took shelter alternately behind_the ranks of the Jacobins and the Bris- sotins , and did the ...
... Jacobin Club . Too malignant to suffer royalty to perish without a wound from his hand , yet too feeble to strike the mortal blow himself , he took shelter alternately behind_the ranks of the Jacobins and the Bris- sotins , and did the ...
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... Jacobin Empire was the last price of the Jacobin spell . Condorcet had outlived the Bris- sotins , but he was not forgotten by the bolder traitors . In 1793 he was pursued by the general vengeance that swept the ranks of French fac ...
... Jacobin Empire was the last price of the Jacobin spell . Condorcet had outlived the Bris- sotins , but he was not forgotten by the bolder traitors . In 1793 he was pursued by the general vengeance that swept the ranks of French fac ...
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... Jacobins who now issue their man- dates from the Privy Councils of Manchester and Birmingham is , that the Church estates are the property of the public ; that the clergy are a race of public servants , who have no more interest in ...
... Jacobins who now issue their man- dates from the Privy Councils of Manchester and Birmingham is , that the Church estates are the property of the public ; that the clergy are a race of public servants , who have no more interest in ...
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... Jacobin's whole creed is comprised in the two commandments of a re- bellious heart - Exclude providence from the conduct of its own world , and hate your neighbour as you love yourself . Disown the one that you may be entitled to ...
... Jacobin's whole creed is comprised in the two commandments of a re- bellious heart - Exclude providence from the conduct of its own world , and hate your neighbour as you love yourself . Disown the one that you may be entitled to ...
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Page 191 - E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, 'Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn...
Page 182 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Shar'on, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
Page 190 - Thou deckest thyself with light as it were with a garment, and spreadest out the heavens like a curtain. 3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters, and maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon the wings of the wind.
Page 526 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Page 43 - 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 who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Page 41 - 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*.
Page 41 - ... of hell, which in France is now so furiously boiling, we should uncover our nakedness by throwing off that Christian religion which has hitherto been our boast and comfort, and one great source of civilization amongst us, and among many other nations, we are apprehensive (being well aware that the mind will not endure a void) that some uncouth, pernicious, and degrading superstition, might take place of it.
Page 125 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Page 526 - ... stagnant wasting reservoir of merit in me, or in any ancestry. He had in himself a salient living spring of generous and manly action. Every day he lived, he would have repurchased the bounty of the crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he had received. He was made a public creature, and had no enjoyment whatever but in the performance of some duty. At this exigent moment the loss of a finished man is not easily supplied.
Page 529 - Cross, alive as he is, and thinking no harm in the world, he is divided into rumps, and sirloins, and briskets, and into all sorts of pieces for roasting, boiling, and stewing, that, all the while they are measuring him, his Grace is measuring me, — is invidiously comparing the bounty of the crown with the deserts of the defender of his order, and in the same moment fawning on those who have the knife half out of the sheath? Poor innocent ! " Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And...