Lectures on History: Second and Concluding Series, on the French Revolution, 3. sējumsW. Pickering, 1840 |
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12. lappuse
... consider the face of the kingdom of France , the multitude and opulence of her cities , the useful magnificence of her spacious high roads and bridges , the opportunity of her artificial canals and navigations opening the conveniences ...
... consider the face of the kingdom of France , the multitude and opulence of her cities , the useful magnificence of her spacious high roads and bridges , the opportunity of her artificial canals and navigations opening the conveniences ...
15. lappuse
... consider as sufficient to show , that Mr. Burke was wiser than were the friends of freedom in the year 1790 , and that he was a political prophet . I will now allude to what I conceive to be his merit , as a moral prophet . I do not ...
... consider as sufficient to show , that Mr. Burke was wiser than were the friends of freedom in the year 1790 , and that he was a political prophet . I will now allude to what I conceive to be his merit , as a moral prophet . I do not ...
16. lappuse
... consider , whether what he was going to do was likely to benefit his species , and it was to him to be right or wrong accordingly . Mr. Burke , on the contrary , had insisted on the authority of instinct and natural feelings , and the ...
... consider , whether what he was going to do was likely to benefit his species , and it was to him to be right or wrong accordingly . Mr. Burke , on the contrary , had insisted on the authority of instinct and natural feelings , and the ...
19. lappuse
... consider his work , as in this point , defective , and the two first books of his Moral Philosophy ( with the ... considering the ten- dencies of their actions , and the happiness or misery which thence arises to society ? " Here we have ...
... consider his work , as in this point , defective , and the two first books of his Moral Philosophy ( with the ... considering the ten- dencies of their actions , and the happiness or misery which thence arises to society ? " Here we have ...
28. lappuse
... consider . I must premise a few remarks . The war between the new opinions and the old , was in morals what I have already described to you , when I alluded to the writings of Burke ; but in politics it was not a little between the ...
... consider . I must premise a few remarks . The war between the new opinions and the old , was in morals what I have already described to you , when I alluded to the writings of Burke ; but in politics it was not a little between the ...
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22. lappuse - But now all is to be changed. 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.
399. lappuse - Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its blessings; and although our territory has stretched out wider and wider and our population spread farther and farther, they have not outrun its protection or its benefits. It has been to us all a copious fountain of national, social, and personal happiness.
399. lappuse - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
81. lappuse - But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue ? It is the greatest of all possible evils ; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
401. lappuse - No ! if these columns fall, they will be raised not again. Like the Coliseum and the Parthenon, they will be destined to a mournful, a melancholy immortality. Bitterer tears, however, will flow over them, than were ever shed over the monuments of Roman or Grecian art ; for they will be the remnants of a more glorious edifice than Greece or Rome ever saw, — the edifice of constitutional American liberty.
25. lappuse - 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.
23. lappuse - In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
210. lappuse - The French people recognize the existence of the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul...
346. lappuse - When I see the spirit of liberty in action, I see a strong principle at work ; and this, for a while, is, all I can possibly know of it. The wild gas, the fixed air, is plainly broke loose: but we ought to suspend our judgment until the first effervescence is a little subsided, till the liquor is cleared, and until we see something deeper than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface.
328. lappuse - ... interpose a salutary check to all precipitate resolutions; they render deliberation a matter not of choice, but of necessity; they make all change a subject of compromise; which naturally begets moderation; they produce temperaments, preventing the sore evil of harsh, crude, unqualified reformations; and rendering all the headlong exertions of arbitrary power, in the few or in the many, for ever impracticable.