The French Revolution: Chapters from the Author's History of England During the Eighteenth CenturyD. Appleton, 1904 - 585 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
abolished absolute alliance anarchy Ancien Régime appeared army Auckland Austrian Netherlands bed of justice body Burke Burke's Correspondence character Chauvelin Church classes clergy Constitution corvées Court danger declared decree democratic desired despotism doctrine Duke Dumouriez edicts Elector emigrants Emperor England English Government established Europe expressed favour feudal force foreign France French affairs French Revolution Hist Holland Ibid influence interests invasion Keith King of Prussia Lebrun legislative Leopold letter Lewis XIV Lewis XVI liberty Lord Lord Gower Majesty Marie Antoinette measure ment military monarchy National Assembly Necker neutrality never once opinion opposition Parliament of Paris party passions peace Pitt Poland political popular princes principles privileged orders provinces question reform Republic resistance Rocquain Rousseau royal Scheldt society sovereigns spirit States-General Taine Talleyrand taxation Third Estate tion treaty troops Turgot Voltaire vote Whig whole wholly wrote
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Página 214 - 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.
Página 216 - 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.
Página 217 - The nature of man is intricate, the objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity, and therefore no simple disposition or direction of power can be suitable either to man's nature or to the quality of his affairs.
Página 217 - ... it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes.
Página 215 - You see, Sir, that in this enlightened age I am bold enough to confess that we are generally men of untaught feelings : that, instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree...
Página 232 - ... out of the possibility of danger. Then they form a natural rampart about the lesser properties in all their gradations. The same quantity of property, which is by the natural course of things divided among many, has not the same operation. Its defensive power is weakened as it is diffused. In this diffusion each man's portion is less than what, in the eagerness of his desires, he may flatter himself to obtain by dissipating the accumulations of others. The plunder of the few would indeed give...
Página 271 - ... contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance, the usurpation cannot alter the right of things. Sovereignty as a matter of right appertains to the nation only, and not to any individual; and a nation has at all times an inherent, indefeasible right to abolish any form of government it finds inconvenient, and establish such as accords with its interest, disposition, and happiness.
Página 232 - But as ability is a vigorous and active principle, and as property is sluggish, inert and timid, it never can be safe from the invasions of ability, unless it be, out of all proportion, predominant in the representation. It must be represented too in great masses of accumulation, or it is not rightly protected. The characteristic essence of property, formed out of the combined principles of its acquisition and conservation, is to be unequal.
Página 266 - there is a loss of friends. I know the price of my conduct. I have done my duty at the price of my friend. Our friendship is at an end.
Página 205 - Our present danger from the example of a people, whose character knows no medium, is, with regard to government, a danger from anarchy; a danger of being led through an admiration of successful fraud and violence, to an imitation of the excesses of an irrational, unprincipled, proscribing, confiscating, plundering, ferocious, bloody, and tyrannical democracy.