Lectures on History: Second and Concluding Series, on the French Revolution, Volum 3W. Pickering, 1840 |
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... failed . What were hereafter to be the consequences , and what benefit may have already accrued to France , even as she now stands , is not the question ; it may be considerable , 3 B Burke a Political and Moral Prophet.
... failed . What were hereafter to be the consequences , and what benefit may have already accrued to France , even as she now stands , is not the question ; it may be considerable , 3 B Burke a Political and Moral Prophet.
Side 2
... question is , whether on the execution of the king and the erection of the republic , in the situation that France stood at the close of January , 1793 , the Revolution must not be con- sidered as having failed ; and whether the whole ...
... question is , whether on the execution of the king and the erection of the republic , in the situation that France stood at the close of January , 1793 , the Revolution must not be con- sidered as having failed ; and whether the whole ...
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... question is not now of the vices of that monarchy , but of its existence . Is it then true that the French government was such as to be incapable or undeserving of reform ; so that it was of absolute necessity the whole fabric should be ...
... question is not now of the vices of that monarchy , but of its existence . Is it then true that the French government was such as to be incapable or undeserving of reform ; so that it was of absolute necessity the whole fabric should be ...
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... question it might ; and it ought . It is one of the excellencies of a method in which time is among the assistants , that its operation is slow , and in some cases almost imperceptible . If circumspection and caution are a part of ...
... question it might ; and it ought . It is one of the excellencies of a method in which time is among the assistants , that its operation is slow , and in some cases almost imperceptible . If circumspection and caution are a part of ...
Side 17
... question to be decided , if made a question at all , by the common sense and common feelings of mankind . This contempt in Mr. Burke of this part of the new philosophy has rendered this portion of his work ( a short but most important ...
... question to be decided , if made a question at all , by the common sense and common feelings of mankind . This contempt in Mr. Burke of this part of the new philosophy has rendered this portion of his work ( a short but most important ...
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Lectures on History: Second and Concluding Series, on the French ..., Volum 3 William Smyth Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1840 |
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Side 22 - But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions/ which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason.
Side 399 - Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its blessings; and although our territory has stretched out wider and wider and our population spread farther and farther, they have not outrun its protection or its benefits. It has been to us all a copious fountain of national, social, and personal happiness.
Side 399 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Side 81 - But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue ? It is the greatest of all possible evils ; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Side 401 - No ! if these columns fall, they will be raised not again. Like the Coliseum and the Parthenon, they will be destined to a mournful, a melancholy immortality. Bitterer tears, however, will flow over them, than were ever shed over the monuments of Roman or Grecian art ; for they will be the remnants of a more glorious edifice than Greece or Rome ever saw, — the edifice of constitutional American liberty.
Side 25 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason, because we suspect that this stock in each man is small and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
Side 23 - In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
Side 210 - The French people recognize the existence of the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul...
Side 346 - When I see the spirit of liberty in action, I see a strong principle at work ; and this, for a while, is, all I can possibly know of it. The wild gas, the fixed air, is plainly broke loose: but we ought to suspend our judgment until the first effervescence is a little subsided, till the liquor is cleared, and until we see something deeper than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface.
Side 328 - ... interpose a salutary check to all precipitate resolutions; they render deliberation a matter not of choice, but of necessity; they make all change a subject of compromise; which naturally begets moderation; they produce temperaments, preventing the sore evil of harsh, crude, unqualified reformations; and rendering all the headlong exertions of arbitrary power, in the few or in the many, for ever impracticable.