Lectures on History: Second and Concluding Series, on the French Revolution, Volum 3W. Pickering, 1840 |
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... remarks on such important points as those he alludes to the nature of their popular assembly , the want of a second ... remark was illustrated in the instances of La Fayette and Dumourier , and the latter part in that of Buonaparte . In ...
... remarks on such important points as those he alludes to the nature of their popular assembly , the want of a second ... remark was illustrated in the instances of La Fayette and Dumourier , and the latter part in that of Buonaparte . In ...
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... remarks on that great event ; what I have now said , I have only said , because I thought it necessary to enable those who have not considered these subjects properly to comprehend the extracts I am going to read from Mr. Burke . I may ...
... remarks on that great event ; what I have now said , I have only said , because I thought it necessary to enable those who have not considered these subjects properly to comprehend the extracts I am going to read from Mr. Burke . I may ...
Side 28
... remarks . The war between the new opinions and the old , was in morals what I have already described to you , when I alluded to the writings of Burke ; but in politics it was not a little between the feudal notions of Europe , and what ...
... remarks . The war between the new opinions and the old , was in morals what I have already described to you , when I alluded to the writings of Burke ; but in politics it was not a little between the feudal notions of Europe , and what ...
Side 61
... remarks as I have now made , I will endeavour to illustrate , by offering you some description of the manner in which Mr. Godwin treats the subject of property ; -one , the most important , the key - stone of society . Now it is very ...
... remarks as I have now made , I will endeavour to illustrate , by offering you some description of the manner in which Mr. Godwin treats the subject of property ; -one , the most important , the key - stone of society . Now it is very ...
Side 77
... remarks . The shortest , and most able account is by Mignet ; but it appears to me , far too favourable to the Girondists . You will of course read his sixth and seventh books . The historian in these books gives the detail ; the main ...
... remarks . The shortest , and most able account is by Mignet ; but it appears to me , far too favourable to the Girondists . You will of course read his sixth and seventh books . The historian in these books gives the detail ; the main ...
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Lectures on History: Second and Concluding Series, on the French ..., Volum 3 William Smyth Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1848 |
Lectures on History: Second and Concluding Series, on the French ..., Volum 3 William Smyth Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1848 |
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.