A Century of RevolutionChapman and Hall, limited, 1890 - 239 Seiten |
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... passions , not his rational faculties , wherein liberty is rooted , that have been set free 48 Of such agitators the Chamber of Deputies is chiefly composed ; the Revolution has destroyed public spirit in France The Revolution has shown ...
... passions , not his rational faculties , wherein liberty is rooted , that have been set free 48 Of such agitators the Chamber of Deputies is chiefly composed ; the Revolution has destroyed public spirit in France The Revolution has shown ...
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... passions , which heredity transmits in such ample measure . Each infant born into France to - day , unquestionably bears imprinted on its brain many of the intellectual dispositions , of the spiritual qualities , of the phy- sical ...
... passions , which heredity transmits in such ample measure . Each infant born into France to - day , unquestionably bears imprinted on its brain many of the intellectual dispositions , of the spiritual qualities , of the phy- sical ...
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... passion for pos- sessing land " avaricious , penurious , dishonest , tyrannical , foul : sunk in a depravation which one hardly likes to call bestial : it is unfair to the beasts . He is sometimes spoken of - at all events , in this ...
... passion for pos- sessing land " avaricious , penurious , dishonest , tyrannical , foul : sunk in a depravation which one hardly likes to call bestial : it is unfair to the beasts . He is sometimes spoken of - at all events , in this ...
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... meanness displayed by no other peasantry in Europe in the same degree . And in politics he is the facile prey of the charlatan who can best prey upon these passions . He is not apprehensive that Radicalism , in its extremest form , will.
... meanness displayed by no other peasantry in Europe in the same degree . And in politics he is the facile prey of the charlatan who can best prey upon these passions . He is not apprehensive that Radicalism , in its extremest form , will.
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... passions : his greed , his envy , his hatred , until he has become , so to speak , possessed by them . But liberty ... passions . The passions it is , I E say , not the rational faculties , of the masses.
... passions : his greed , his envy , his hatred , until he has become , so to speak , possessed by them . But liberty ... passions . The passions it is , I E say , not the rational faculties , of the masses.
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Seite 126 - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Seite 211 - Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands,* That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak...
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Seite 189 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Seite 134 - The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance. The understanding revolts at such a conclusion...
Seite 41 - When we measure the progress of a society by its growth in freedom, we measure it by the increasing development and exercise on the whole of those powers of contributing to social good with which we believe the members of the society to be endowed ; in short, by the greater power on the part of the citizens as a body to make the most and best of themselves.
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