Reflections on the Revolution in FranceMacmillan, 1890 - 484 páginas |
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... authority and the variety of their functions , may be compared to the Indian collectors . They were really the men who governed France . The system of taxation was oppressive and unequal . The nobles and clergy were , practically ...
... authority and the variety of their functions , may be compared to the Indian collectors . They were really the men who governed France . The system of taxation was oppressive and unequal . The nobles and clergy were , practically ...
Página xix
... authority became centred in little local oligarchies of the higher and richer order of citizens ; and , as the people ceased to interest themselves in local affairs , government became more and more able to inter- fere in them , until ...
... authority became centred in little local oligarchies of the higher and richer order of citizens ; and , as the people ceased to interest themselves in local affairs , government became more and more able to inter- fere in them , until ...
Página xxvi
... authority , and consequent absence of all opportunities of acquiring political capacity . Independence and self - help had been utterly destroyed . It was to government and its officers that the people looked to take the initiative in ...
... authority , and consequent absence of all opportunities of acquiring political capacity . Independence and self - help had been utterly destroyed . It was to government and its officers that the people looked to take the initiative in ...
Página xxx
... authority of the people - Sovereignty is fixed by nature in the people . It means the right to elect representatives , and , of course , to displace them and substitute others . When the sovereignty has been wrested from the people ...
... authority of the people - Sovereignty is fixed by nature in the people . It means the right to elect representatives , and , of course , to displace them and substitute others . When the sovereignty has been wrested from the people ...
Página xxxix
... authority or law . In the laws of countries , besides the law of nature which they enforce , there is also a positive or conventional element , which , naturally , varies from country to country according to the special needs of time ...
... authority or law . In the laws of countries , besides the law of nature which they enforce , there is also a positive or conventional element , which , naturally , varies from country to country according to the special needs of time ...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France Edmund Burke,Alan Wolfe,Darrin M. McMahon,Conor Cruise O'Brien,Jack N. Rakove Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |
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Página 85 - 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. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Página 475 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house: and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Página 36 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Página 84 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Página 84 - 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. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy.
Página 36 - You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Página 85 - 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; all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off...
Página 107 - Society is indeed a contract. 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.
Página 97 - 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 385 - Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.