Letters from Paris, on the Causes and Consequences of the French Revolution |
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... circumstance which , whilst it points out the furious tyranny that had previously prevailed , may aid the judgment in forming an idea of the social relations of this people in that age . I allude to the very touching picture of national ...
... circumstance which , whilst it points out the furious tyranny that had previously prevailed , may aid the judgment in forming an idea of the social relations of this people in that age . I allude to the very touching picture of national ...
Page 82
... circumstances prove how far the French were from being entirely humanized before his death . The many attempts on the life of this pattern of kingly excellence ; the san- guinary phlegm with which the court probably destroyed him at ...
... circumstances prove how far the French were from being entirely humanized before his death . The many attempts on the life of this pattern of kingly excellence ; the san- guinary phlegm with which the court probably destroyed him at ...
Page 94
... circumstances ever struck the imagination of Voltaire ; if it did , I believe he suppressed it , because it could not heighten the colouring of his picture , nor flatter the national vanity of the people , on whose pleasure the ...
... circumstances ever struck the imagination of Voltaire ; if it did , I believe he suppressed it , because it could not heighten the colouring of his picture , nor flatter the national vanity of the people , on whose pleasure the ...
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... circumstances ten- ded to loosen the machine of state , and if it still continued to revolve , it did so as the deer continues his course , even after he has received the ball of death . During the war which preceded that peace , the ...
... circumstances ten- ded to loosen the machine of state , and if it still continued to revolve , it did so as the deer continues his course , even after he has received the ball of death . During the war which preceded that peace , the ...
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... circumstances , it is not surprising that the rural economy of France was far inferior to that of England , Holland , or Switzerland ; or that the gentlemen of France , who * See Arthur Young . travelled abroad during the period to ...
... circumstances , it is not surprising that the rural economy of France was far inferior to that of England , Holland , or Switzerland ; or that the gentlemen of France , who * See Arthur Young . travelled abroad during the period to ...
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Page 133 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Page 150 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 147 - Le pouvoir intermédiaire subordonné le plus naturel est celui de la noblesse. Elle entre en quelque façon dans l'essence de la monarchie , dont la maxime fondamentale est , « point «de monarque, point de noblesse; point de « noblesse , point de monarque ». Mais on a un despote.
Page 339 - The press, however, has left the understanding of the mass of men just where it found it ; but by supplying an endless stimulus to their imagination and passions, it has rendered their temper and habits infinitely worse. It has inspired ignorance with presumption, so that those who cannot be governed by reason are no longer to be awed by authority.
Page 101 - On buvait beaucoup et du meilleur vin, on s'échauffait, on disait des ordures à gorge déployée, et des impiétés à qui mieux mieux ; et quand on avait fait du bruit et qu'on était bien . ivre , on s'allait coucher.
Page 274 - ... for tyranny and slavery do not so properly consist in the stripes that are given and received, as in the power of giving them at pleasure, and the necessity of receiving them, whenever and for whatever they are inflicted.
Page 133 - All this is true, if time stood still, which contrariwise moveth so round that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new.
Page 215 - ... regulations and ordinances necessary for the execution of the laws and the safety of the State.