Reflections on the Revolution in FranceMacmillan, 1890 - Всего страниц: 484 |
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... Reform . His object was to abolish all the lucrative sinecures , by means of which the Court could corrupt the House of Commons , and turn it into a mere tool of despotism . This was Burke's substitute for those schemes of organic reform ...
... Reform . His object was to abolish all the lucrative sinecures , by means of which the Court could corrupt the House of Commons , and turn it into a mere tool of despotism . This was Burke's substitute for those schemes of organic reform ...
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... reforms , instead of appeasing the people , rendered them more impatient and more dis- contented than before . Measures of relief undertaken by the government necessitated ruinous loans . The inquiries instituted by government into the ...
... reforms , instead of appeasing the people , rendered them more impatient and more dis- contented than before . Measures of relief undertaken by the government necessitated ruinous loans . The inquiries instituted by government into the ...
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... reform was useless , and revolu- tion inevitable . If we would understand the condition to which the old régime had reduced the people , we must contrast the glowing pages of Burke with the more sober account of an eye - witness ...
... reform was useless , and revolu- tion inevitable . If we would understand the condition to which the old régime had reduced the people , we must contrast the glowing pages of Burke with the more sober account of an eye - witness ...
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... reform . We have recognized modes of forcing atten- tion to our wishes and compelling satisfaction of our desires . But what had time brought to the masses of France ? Nothing . Rousseau's words fell like a spark on inflammable matter ...
... reform . We have recognized modes of forcing atten- tion to our wishes and compelling satisfaction of our desires . But what had time brought to the masses of France ? Nothing . Rousseau's words fell like a spark on inflammable matter ...
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... reform . They allowed too little for the formative influences of history and circumstances . They were too apt to for- get , in their condemnation of church and state , the extent to which the characters and actions of individuals are ...
... reform . They allowed too little for the formative influences of history and circumstances . They were too apt to for- get , in their condemnation of church and state , the extent to which the characters and actions of individuals are ...
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Стр. 85 - 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!
Стр. 475 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house: and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Стр. 36 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Стр. 84 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Стр. 84 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy.
Стр. 36 - You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Стр. 85 - 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; all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off...
Стр. 107 - Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts, for objects of mere occasional interest, may be dissolved at pleasure ; but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Стр. 97 - 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.
Стр. 385 - Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.