Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Richard PriceR. Hunter, 1815 - 189 sider |
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Side 157 - I see the ardour for liberty catching and spreading ; a general amendment beginning in human affairs ; the dominion of kings changed for the dominion of laws, and the dominion of priests giving way to the dominion of reason and conscience.
Side 25 - Given the number of times in which an unknown event has happened and failed : Required the chance that the probability of its happening in a single trial lies somewhere between any two degrees of probability that can be named.
Side 164 - ... the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive even in servitude itself the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life...
Side 56 - It is a million of pities so fair a plan as we have hitherto been engaged in, for increasing strength and empire with public felicity, should be destroyed by the mangling hands of a few blundering ministers.
Side 142 - Petersburgh, at all which places I visited the prisons and hospitals, which were all flung open to me ; and, in some, the Burgomasters accompanied me into the dungeons, as well as into the other rooms of confinement. " I arrived a few days ago in this city, and have begun my rounds. The hospitals are in a sad state ; upwards of seventy thousand sailors and recruits died in them last year. I labour to convey the torch of philanthropy into these distant regions ; as, in God's.
Side 96 - The ancient Roman and Greek orators could only speak to the number of citizens capable of being assembled within the reach of their voice. Their writings had little effect, because the bulk of the people could not read. Now by the press we can speak to nations ; and good books and well written pamphlets have great and general influence.
Side 158 - But some of his correspondents were not quite so sanguine in their expectations from the last of the revolutions ; and among these, the late American Ambassador, Mr. John Adams. In a long letter which he wrote to Dr. Price at this time, so far from congratulating him on the occasion, he expresses himself in terms of contempt, in regard to the French revolution ; and after asking rather too severely what good was to be expected from a nation of Atheists, he concluded with foretelling the destruction...
Side 104 - Most of the distresses of our country, and of the mistakes which Europeans have formed of us, have arisen from a belief that the American revolution is over. This is so far from being the case, that we have only finished the first act of the great drama.
Side 165 - ... to choose our own governors; to cashier them for misconduct ; and to form a government for ourselves.
Side 39 - ... puzzled himself so much in the correction of it, that the colour of his hair, which was naturally black, became changed in different parts of his head into spots of perfect white.