Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France, &cThomas Pearson, 1791 - 155 sivua |
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... Circumstances attending the Diffolution of the old one IO Letter III . Of the Nature of Government , and the Rights of Men and of Kings 22 34 Letter IV . Of the Revolution in England , compared with that in France Letter V. Of the ...
... Circumstances attending the Diffolution of the old one IO Letter III . Of the Nature of Government , and the Rights of Men and of Kings 22 34 Letter IV . Of the Revolution in England , compared with that in France Letter V. Of the ...
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... circumstances taken " together , the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world . " It is , therefore , a most interesting object bath to philofophical and practi- cal politicians . It behoves them particularly to confider ...
... circumstances taken " together , the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world . " It is , therefore , a most interesting object bath to philofophical and practi- cal politicians . It behoves them particularly to confider ...
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... circumstances , and con- fequently of all their reasons , I prefume that they could not at the time have done better . In future however , whatever it be that is now deficient may be fupplied . And confidering the apparent strength of ...
... circumstances , and con- fequently of all their reasons , I prefume that they could not at the time have done better . In future however , whatever it be that is now deficient may be fupplied . And confidering the apparent strength of ...
Sivu 8
... Circumstances attending the Diffolution of the old one . DEAR SIR , Tit very poffible that the National Affembly , having entered upon the business of reforming the whole ftate in an unexpected manner , when little could have been ...
... Circumstances attending the Diffolution of the old one . DEAR SIR , Tit very poffible that the National Affembly , having entered upon the business of reforming the whole ftate in an unexpected manner , when little could have been ...
Sivu 32
... circumstances from checking the incroachments of their kings , the right of doing it must ever remain inherent in them . They must always have a power of refuming what them- felves gave , when the condition on which it was given is not ...
... circumstances from checking the incroachments of their kings , the right of doing it must ever remain inherent in them . They must always have a power of refuming what them- felves gave , when the condition on which it was given is not ...
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abuſed addreffed Affembly of France againſt alfo anſwer becauſe befides biſhops Burke buſineſs cafe caufe cauſe chriſtian chufe church eſtabliſhment church of England circumftances civil eſtabliſhment clergy confequence confider conftitution copacy courſe crown DEAR SIR difcuffion Diffenters doctrine doubt ecclefiaftical Edition efta elſe England eſpecially eſtabliſhment of religion exift faid fame ferious fervants fhall fhould firſt fituation fociety fome fovereign fpirit French ftand ftate fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofe fupport fyftem happineſs himſelf hiſtory Houſe idea increaſe inftitutions inftruction intereft itſelf king laft laws leaſt lefs LETTER LETTER liberty ligion magiftrate mankind meaſure ment minifters moft moſt muft muſt National Affembly nature neceffary occafion ourſelves perfons pleaſe poffible prefent princes principles profeffion purpoſe reaſon refpect Revolution ſay ſee ſhall ſtand ſtate ſyſtem thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion univerfal uſe whofe wiſdom worſhip yourſelf
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Sivu 27 - 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, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone...
Sivu 69 - ... of his inferiority, and degrades and vilifies his condition. It is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue, that this portion of the general wealth of his country is employed and sanctified.
Sivu 22 - But he has not a right to an equal dividend in the product of the joint stock; and as to the share of power, authority, and direction which each individual ought to have in the management of the state, that I must deny to be amongst the direct original rights of man in civil society; for I have in my contemplation the civil social man, and no other.
Sivu 33 - The Judgment of Whole Kingdoms and Nations, Concerning the Rights, Power, and Prerogative of Kings, and the Rights, Privileges, and Properties of the People: Shewing, The Nature of Government in general, both from God and Man.
Sivu 63 - We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is by his constitution a religious animal; that atheism is against, not only our reason, but our instincts; and that it cannot prevail long. But if, in the moment of riot, and in a drunken delirium from the hot spirit drawn out of the alembic of hell...
Sivu 92 - It is therefore of infinite importance that they should not be suffered to imagine that their will, any more than that of kings, is the standard of right and wrong.
Sivu 34 - And the Acts lately made in England and Scotland mutually for the Union of the Two Kingdoms or that the Kings or Queens of this Realm with and by the Authority of Parliament are not able to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient Force and Validity to limit and bind the Crown and the Descent Limitation Inheritance and Government thereof...
Sivu 39 - ... continued, when it may be changed with advantage to the community. The family of the prince, the order of succession, the prerogative of the crown, the form and parts of the legislature, together with the respective powers, office, duration, and mutual dependency, of the several parts, are...
Sivu 12 - But if your reasoning be good that lawyers whose existence depends upon rendering property questionable, ambiguous, and obscure, will not attend to the stability of property, where is our policy in raising such men to the rank of judges? We do not think our property less safe in their hands because they have always lived, by what has been called 'the glorious uncertainty of the law.