French Philosophers of the Eighteenth Century

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Merrick Whitcomb
Department of history of the University of Pennsylvania, 1899 - 35 sider
 

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Side 13 - Such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.
Side 21 - you believe that in returning and exposing to your countrymen the unreasonableness of the demands of this government, you will unite them in their resistance to those demands. You are mistaken — You ought to know that the diplomatic skill of France, and the means she possesses in your country, are sufficient to enable her, with THE FRENCH PARTY IN AMERICA, to throw the blame which will attend the rupture on the Federalists, as you term yourselves, but on the British party, as France terms you,...
Side 7 - The public force therefore needs an agent of its own to bind it together and set it to work under the direction of the general will, to serve as a means of communication...
Side 13 - they themselves have chosen to manage their common concerns, and thus to produce divisions fatal to our peace.
Side 1 - America, being desirous, by a treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, to terminate their differences in such a manner, as, without reference to the merits of their respective complaints and pretensions, may be the best calculated to produce mutual satisfaction and good understanding...
Side 6 - The Germans, however, do not consider it consistent with the grandeur of celestial beings to confine the gods within walls, or to liken them to the form of any human countenance. They consecrate woods and groves, and they apply the names of deities to the abstraction which they see only in spiritual worship.
Side 5 - MX could not point out the particular passages of the speech that had given offence, nor the quantum of the loan: but mentioned that the douceur for the pocket was twelve hundred thousand livres, about fifty thousand pounds sterling.
Side 14 - While we are endeavoring to adjust all our differences with France by amicable negotiation, the progress of the war in Europe, the depredations on our commerce, the personal injuries to our citizens, and the general complexion of our affairs, render it my indispensable duty to recommend to your Consideration effectual measures of defence.
Side 10 - Charles by the grace of God, king of the Franks and Lombards, and patrician of the Romans, to our venerable and most dear brother Offa, king of the Mercians, greeting.

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