Select Works: Reflections on the revolution in France. 1881; copies 2-4, 1888Clarendon Press, 1881 |
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... say categorically that the French Revolution was absolutely a good thing or a bad thing conveys no useful idea . Either ... says less than he knows . It was his cue to represent the Revolution as a piece of voluntary and malicious folly ...
... say categorically that the French Revolution was absolutely a good thing or a bad thing conveys no useful idea . Either ... says less than he knows . It was his cue to represent the Revolution as a piece of voluntary and malicious folly ...
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... say , There is no sin but to be rich : And being rich , my virtue then shall be To say , There is no vice but beggary1 . ' It is founded on an This creed will never lack exponents . ancient tale , and in a certain sense , a tale of ...
... say , There is no sin but to be rich : And being rich , my virtue then shall be To say , There is no vice but beggary1 . ' It is founded on an This creed will never lack exponents . ancient tale , and in a certain sense , a tale of ...
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... subject contained in the Encyclopédie . It is enough to say of it that it exhibited the worst characteristics of English law before the time of b 2 Richard II . The general system of English law he ́INTRODUCTION . > xix.
... subject contained in the Encyclopédie . It is enough to say of it that it exhibited the worst characteristics of English law before the time of b 2 Richard II . The general system of English law he ́INTRODUCTION . > xix.
Стр. xxiv
... says Montesquieu . ' Both in civil and in ecclesiastical polity , ' says Hooker , ' there are , and will be always , evils which no art of man can cure , breaches and leaks more than man's art hath hands to stop . ' This may be : but it ...
... says Montesquieu . ' Both in civil and in ecclesiastical polity , ' says Hooker , ' there are , and will be always , evils which no art of man can cure , breaches and leaks more than man's art hath hands to stop . ' This may be : but it ...
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... says , under that epidemic distemper of idle men , the idea of instructing and informing the world . The heart of men , and the greater heart of associated bodies of men , has been radically the same in all ages . In the laws of life we ...
... says , under that epidemic distemper of idle men , the idea of instructing and informing the world . The heart of men , and the greater heart of associated bodies of men , has been radically the same in all ages . In the laws of life we ...
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Стр. 89 - 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.
Стр. 89 - 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.
Стр. xxix - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Стр. 70 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should be frequently thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Стр. 13 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Стр. 39 - 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. 114 - 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. Each contract of each particular State is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical...
Стр. 39 - Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
Стр. 114 - 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.
Стр. 113 - 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. It is to be looked on with other reverence; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary...