Political Essays, with Sketches of Public CharactersWilliam Hone, 1819 - 439 Seiten |
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... French Re- volution was stark - naught , because the people here did the same thing , passed from slavery to liberty , from an arbitrary to a consti- tutional government , to which they had , it seems , no prescriptive right , and ...
... French Re- volution was stark - naught , because the people here did the same thing , passed from slavery to liberty , from an arbitrary to a consti- tutional government , to which they had , it seems , no prescriptive right , and ...
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... French had no right to turn off Louis XVI . because he broke no compact with them , for he had none to break ; in other words , because he was an arbitrary despot , tied to no laws , and they a herd of slaves , and therefore they were ...
... French had no right to turn off Louis XVI . because he broke no compact with them , for he had none to break ; in other words , because he was an arbitrary despot , tied to no laws , and they a herd of slaves , and therefore they were ...
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... the bloody and brutal tyranny of a Bonaparte for the mild paternal sway of a Bourbon ? Could a popular French general open to himself a more glorious career at the present moment , than that 8 The Bourbons and Buonaparte.
... the bloody and brutal tyranny of a Bonaparte for the mild paternal sway of a Bourbon ? Could a popular French general open to himself a more glorious career at the present moment , than that 8 The Bourbons and Buonaparte.
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... French nation to one dynasty or to another : it is a question of military enter- prise , in the minds of military adventurers . The simple possi- bility , not to say the high moral probability , that in a moment of general defection ...
... French nation to one dynasty or to another : it is a question of military enter- prise , in the minds of military adventurers . The simple possi- bility , not to say the high moral probability , that in a moment of general defection ...
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... French wish to shake off the galling yoke of a military Usurper , we say , let them do it in God's name . Let them , whenever they please , imitate us in our recal of the Stuarts ; and , whenever they please , in our banishment of them ...
... French wish to shake off the galling yoke of a military Usurper , we say , let them do it in God's name . Let them , whenever they please , imitate us in our recal of the Stuarts ; and , whenever they please , in our banishment of them ...
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abuse admiration Allies answer better Bonaparte Bourbons Burke cause character Coleridge Commission of Government common consequences contempt Courier court divine right doctrine Duke of Wellington earth enemy equally evil favour feelings force Fouché France French Revolution genius give hands hates heart honour human imagination interest Jacobin John Ball justice King knaves labour Legitimacy liberty live Lord Castlereagh Lord William Bentinck Louis XVIII Malthus Malthus's mankind mind moral nation nature never object opinion Paris passions patriotism peace persons philosopher poet poetry political poor population prejudices present pretensions Prince principle Quarterly Review question reason reform Regicide Rehoboam reign religion renegado Robert Southey rotten boroughs sense sentiments shew slaves Southey Southey's spirit suppose Talleyrand taxes thing thought throne tion true truth understanding vanity Vetus vice and misery virtue Wat Tyler whole words wretched write
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Seite 99 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with.
Seite 372 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite 190 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Seite 142 - And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Seite 144 - What is he, whose grief Bears such an emphasis ? whose phrase of sorrow Conjures the wand'ring stars, and makes them stand Like wonder-wounded hearers ? this is I, Hamlet the Dane.
Seite 130 - Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter? 10 And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
Seite 138 - The preacher then launched into his subject, like an eagle dallying with the wind. The sermon was upon peace and war — upon church and state — not their alliance, but their separation — on the spirit of the world, and the spirit of Christianity, not as the same, but as opposed to one another. He talked of those who had inscribed the cross of Christ on banners dripping with human gore.
Seite 166 - Of whatsoe'er descent their godhead be, Stock, stone, or other homely pedigree, In his defence his servants are as bold, As if he had been born of beaten gold.
Seite 138 - And for myself, I could not have been more delighted if I had heard the music of the spheres. Poetry and Philosophy had met together, Truth and Genius had embraced, under the eye and with the sanction of Religion. This was even beyond my hopes I returned home well satisfied.
Seite 222 - Make the hoar leprosy ador'd; place thieves, And give them title, knee, and approbation, With senators on the bench; this is it That makes the wappen'd widow wed again; She, whom the spital-house and ulcerous sores Would cast the gorge at, this embalms and spices To the April day again.