The English Jacobins from 1789 to 1802 ...Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1924 - 52 páginas |
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¹ Letter addresses alarmed Anti-Jacobins Appendix Aristocracy Burke Burke's Works 1826 cause Clubs Committee of Secrecy considered conspiracy Constitutional Information convicted dangerous delegates Duke of Portland Edinburgh Convention England English Jacobins English Reformers excitement Farington Diary fear France Francis Place Francklow French Revolution Friends Gerrald Godwin Government Hardy's Hist Horne Tooke Hutton Hutton's Autobiography Ibid importance inevitably Introductory Letter Jacobin Clubs January John Binns John Hellier Lady Hester Stanhope lbid Liberty London Corresponding Society Lord Auckland Lynam magistrate Manchester meeting ment movement nation nature never O'Coigley once opinion Parl Parliament Parliamentary Reform Pitt political principles Privy Council question Reflections on Burke's Report Republicans Revolution Society revolutionary Rights sedition Sheffield showed Society for Constitutional Society of United spies Stanhope subverting the troops Thelwall theory Thomas Hardy thought toasts Trials Tunbridge United Englishmen United Irishmen victory Whig whole Windham Papers words wrote xxiv
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Página 44 - Did both find helpers to their hearts' desire, And stuff at hand, plastic as they could wish, — Were called upon to exercise their skill, Not in Utopia, — subterranean fields, — Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where ! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, — the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all...
Página 8 - Misery, to reach your heart, I perceive, must have its cap and bells; your tears are reserved, very naturally considering your character, for the declamation of the theatre, or for the downfall of queens, whose rank alters the nature of folly, and throws a graceful veil over vices that degrade humanity...
Página 9 - The meanest mechanic, the poorest peasant and daylabourer, has important rights respecting his personal liberty, that of his wife and children, his property, however inconsiderable, his wages, his earnings, the very price and value of each day's hard labour, which are in many trades and manufactures regulated by the power of parliament.
Página 10 - When we survey the wretched condition of man under the monarchical and hereditary systems of Government, dragged from his home by one power, or driven by another, and impoverished by taxes more than by enemies, it becomes evident that those systems are bad, and that a general revolution in the principle and construction of Governments is necessary.
Página 5 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Página 9 - What is government more than the management of the affairs of a Nation? It is not, and from its nature cannot be, the property of any particular man or family, but of the whole community...
Página 40 - Sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the crown." JOHNSON. "Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the crown? The crown has not power enough.
Página 22 - And run and embrace the meek peasant.'' Her Nobles shall hear and shall weep, and put off The red robe of terror, the crown of oppression, the shoes of contempt, and unbuckle The girdle of war from the desolate earth. Then the Priest in his...
Página 10 - ... the good and happiness of the members, that is the majority of the members of any state, is the great standard by which every thing relating to that state must finally be determined.