The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflectionsJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... taken together , the French revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world . The most wonderful things are brought about in many in- stances by means the most absurd and ridiculous ; in the most ridiculous ...
... taken together , the French revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world . The most wonderful things are brought about in many in- stances by means the most absurd and ridiculous ; in the most ridiculous ...
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... taken for granted their re- ligion will be rational and manly . I doubt whether religion would reap all the benefits which the cal- culating divine computes from this " great com- pany of great preachers . " It would certainly be a ...
... taken for granted their re- ligion will be rational and manly . I doubt whether religion would reap all the benefits which the cal- culating divine computes from this " great com- pany of great preachers . " It would certainly be a ...
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... taken away . Thus these politicians proceed , whilst little no- tice is taken of their doctrines ; but when they come to be examined upon the plain meaning of their words and the direct tendency of their doc- trines , then equivocations ...
... taken away . Thus these politicians proceed , whilst little no- tice is taken of their doctrines ; but when they come to be examined upon the plain meaning of their words and the direct tendency of their doc- trines , then equivocations ...
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... taken . In the very act , in which for a time , and in a single case , parliament departed from the strict order of inheritance , in favour of a prince who , though not next , was however very near in the line of succession , it is ...
... taken . In the very act , in which for a time , and in a single case , parliament departed from the strict order of inheritance , in favour of a prince who , though not next , was however very near in the line of succession , it is ...
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... taken from the preceding act of queen Elizabeth , as solemn a pledge as ever was or can be given in favour of an hereditary succession , and as solemn a renunciation as could be made of the principles by this society imputed to them ...
... taken from the preceding act of queen Elizabeth , as solemn a pledge as ever was or can be given in favour of an hereditary succession , and as solemn a renunciation as could be made of the principles by this society imputed to them ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abuse amongst ancient appear archbishop of Paris army assignats authority become body called canton cardinal of Lorraine cause cern choice church citizens civil clergy common confiscation consider considerable constitution contrivances crimes crown Declaration despotism ecclesiastical effect election England equal establishment estates evil existence favour France gentlemen habits hereditary honour house of commons house of lords human interest justice king king of France kingdom land lative legislative liberty mankind means ment military mind minister monarchy moral municipalities National Assembly nature Necker neral never nobility obedience object obliged officers Old Jewry opinion Paris parliament persons political possessed present preserve principles racter reason religion render representation republic revenue Revolution Society ruin scheme sion sort sovereign spirit thing third estate tion true tyranny vices virtue wealth whilst whole wholly wisdom
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 135 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Seite 107 - 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.
Seite 106 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Seite 105 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Seite 82 - One of the first motives to civil society, and which becomes one of its fundamental rules, is, that no man should be judge in his own cause.
Seite 122 - Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit : and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
Seite 11 - I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the object, as it stands, stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to...
Seite 47 - ... together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Seite 48 - Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.
Seite 47 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable, and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.