Reflections on the Revolution in France,: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. : In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in ParisJ. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1790 - Всего страниц: 356 |
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... 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 . Through that diversity of members and interests , general liberty had ...
... 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 . Through that diversity of members and interests , general liberty had ...
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... evil , would appear perfectly unaccountable , if we did not consider the composition of the National Assembly ; I do not mean its formal constitution , which , as it now stands , is exceptionable enough , but the materials of which in a ...
... evil , would appear perfectly unaccountable , if we did not consider the composition of the National Assembly ; I do not mean its formal constitution , which , as it now stands , is exceptionable enough , but the materials of which in a ...
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... evil of a moral and almost physical inaptitude of the man to the function must be the greatest we can conceive to happen in the management of human affairs . Having considered the composition of the third estate as it stood in its ...
... evil of a moral and almost physical inaptitude of the man to the function must be the greatest we can conceive to happen in the management of human affairs . Having considered the composition of the third estate as it stood in its ...
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... their inte- rest , must very often differ ; and great will be the difference when they make an evil choice . A government of five hundred country attornies and and obscure curates is not good for twenty - four ( 76 )
... their inte- rest , must very often differ ; and great will be the difference when they make an evil choice . A government of five hundred country attornies and and obscure curates is not good for twenty - four ( 76 )
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... evil , and sometimes , between evil and evil . Political rea- fon is a computing principle ; adding , subtracting , multiplying , and dividing , morally and not me- taphysically or mathematically , true moral deno- minations .单 By ...
... evil , and sometimes , between evil and evil . Political rea- fon is a computing principle ; adding , subtracting , multiplying , and dividing , morally and not me- taphysically or mathematically , true moral deno- minations .单 By ...
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Стр. 48 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts; wherein by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Стр. 48 - The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of Providence, are handed down to us, and from us in the same course and order. Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory, parts...
Стр. 57 - ... precarious, tottering power, the discredited paper securities of impoverished fraud, and beggared rapine, held out as a currency for the support of...
Стр. 69 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.
Стр. 87 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. It is an institution of beneficence ; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule.
Стр. 133 - Who, born within the last forty years, has read one word of Collins, and Toland, and Tindal, and Chubb, and Morgan, and that whole race who called themselves Freethinkers? Who now reads Bolingbroke? Who ever read him through?
Стр. 143 - ... approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
Стр. 88 - ... civil society be the offspring of convention, that convention must be its law. That convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed under it. Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are its creatures.
Стр. 49 - By this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a pedigree and illustrating ancestors. It has its bearings and its ensigns armorial. It has its gallery of portraits ; its monumental inscriptions ; its records, evidences, and titles.
Стр. 115 - I may use the expression, in persons ; so as to create in us love, veneration, admiration, or attachment. But that sort of reason which banishes the affections is incapable of filling their place. These public affections, combined with manners, are required sometimes as supplements, sometimes as correctives, always as aids to law.