Letters from Paris, on the Causes and Consequences of the French Revolution |
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... principles of the Whigs in England , if published before the Revolution of 1688. Yet the writer is willing to admit , that in a nation so lately rent asunder by the collisions of civil war as the French , and in which , as in the ocean ...
... principles of the Whigs in England , if published before the Revolution of 1688. Yet the writer is willing to admit , that in a nation so lately rent asunder by the collisions of civil war as the French , and in which , as in the ocean ...
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... principle and the second by interest . The one deprecated the revolution from an impression that the old system of Europe not only offer- ed the most beautiful " and august spectacle ever presented to the moral eye in the long series of ...
... principle and the second by interest . The one deprecated the revolution from an impression that the old system of Europe not only offer- ed the most beautiful " and august spectacle ever presented to the moral eye in the long series of ...
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... principles of right and wrong , and such contempt of justice , that private morals became as atrocious as they were depraved . The whim of a priest might exalt into virtue acts which the christian revelation had * History des Guerres ...
... principles of right and wrong , and such contempt of justice , that private morals became as atrocious as they were depraved . The whim of a priest might exalt into virtue acts which the christian revelation had * History des Guerres ...
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... principles of his queen , for France was twice scourged by matrimonial connexions with the princes of Italy . To Catharine of Medicis , conjointly with the Guises , she owed the massacres and desola- tions of the Ligue , together with ...
... principles of his queen , for France was twice scourged by matrimonial connexions with the princes of Italy . To Catharine of Medicis , conjointly with the Guises , she owed the massacres and desola- tions of the Ligue , together with ...
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... principles which they disseminated had time to take root during the dreaming reign of king James , so that when his son came to the throne , the love of privilege had acquired sturdiness and vigour enough to resist the shocks of ...
... principles which they disseminated had time to take root during the dreaming reign of king James , so that when his son came to the throne , the love of privilege had acquired sturdiness and vigour enough to resist the shocks of ...
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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.