Select Works: Reflections on the revolution in France. 1881; copies 2-4, 1888Clarendon Press, 1881 |
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Стр. vii
... stand or fall by their material strength and cohesion ; and though these are by no means unconnected with the ... stand , because they are connected by many ties which are strong , though subtle and complicated , with the national being ...
... stand or fall by their material strength and cohesion ; and though these are by no means unconnected with the ... stand , because they are connected by many ties which are strong , though subtle and complicated , with the national being ...
Стр. xv
... stand , in public opinion , against Burke's imperious dilemmas . But it is the moral power of the argument , and the brilliancy with which it is enforced , which give the work its value . The topics themselves are of slighter ...
... stand , in public opinion , against Burke's imperious dilemmas . But it is the moral power of the argument , and the brilliancy with which it is enforced , which give the work its value . The topics themselves are of slighter ...
Стр. xvii
... stand upon natural Right . The difficulty is that in so doing he limits himself , and seeks to reduce his fellow - men , to the right of the naked savage , for natural right cannot extend beyond the state of nature . As Jacobinism is ...
... stand upon natural Right . The difficulty is that in so doing he limits himself , and seeks to reduce his fellow - men , to the right of the naked savage , for natural right cannot extend beyond the state of nature . As Jacobinism is ...
Стр. xxx
... stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away , untune that string , And , hark ! what discord follows ! Each thing meets In mere oppugnancy : the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores , And make a sop of all ...
... stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away , untune that string , And , hark ! what discord follows ! Each thing meets In mere oppugnancy : the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores , And make a sop of all ...
Стр. xxxiv
... standing , by its sober lessons on public utility . ' It is not only passively useless ; it tends to disgust us with the system of society altogether ; ' to think irreverently of it , and in time to drop all concern for its interests ...
... standing , by its sober lessons on public utility . ' It is not only passively useless ; it tends to disgust us with the system of society altogether ; ' to think irreverently of it , and in time to drop all concern for its interests ...
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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...