 | Steven P. Sondrup, Virgil Nemoianu, Gerald Gillespie - 2004 - 500 Seiten
...have lived to it .... I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge, which has undermined superstition and error. — I have lived to see the rights of men...and an arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects.... And now, methinks, I see the ardour for liberty catching and spreading; a general amendment... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - 2004 - 612 Seiten
...seen thy salvation. 1 I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge, which has undermined superstition and error— I have lived to see the rights of men...for liberty, which seemed to have lost the idea of it.—I have lived to see thirty millions of people, indignant and resolute, spurning at slavery, and... | |
 | Robert Gibson - 2004 - 336 Seiten
...seen thy salvation. I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge, which has undermined superstition and error — I have lived to see the rights of men...and an arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects. — After sharing in the benefits of one Revolution, I have been spared to be a witness to... | |
 | Maurice Ogborn - 2005 - 320 Seiten
...of knowledge, which has undermined superstition and error. — I have lived to see the rights of man better understood than ever; and nations panting for...and demanding liberty with an irresistible voice. Lest the reader hastily judge Price in the light of what came after, remember that Price died in 1791... | |
 | Maurice Ogborn - 2005 - 320 Seiten
...of knowledge, which has undermined superstition and error. — I have lived to see the rights of man better understood than ever; and nations panting for...thirty millions of people, indignant and resolute, spuming at slavery, and demanding liberty with an irresistible voice. Lest the reader hastily judge... | |
 | Lynn Hunt - 2007 - 284 Seiten
...Benjamin Franklin and frequent critic of the English government, waxed lyrical on the new rights of man. "I have lived to see the rights of men better understood...liberty, which seemed to have lost the idea of it." Outraged by Price's naive enthusiasm for the "metaphysical abstractions" of the French, the well-known... | |
 | Craig Nelson - 2007 - 436 Seiten
...speech concluded by noting that he was overjoyed to have "lived to see thirty millions of people . . . demanding liberty with an irresistible voice, their...and an arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects." Like the great majority of his noble betters, Burke was consumed with the idea that state... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 Seiten
...seen thy salvation. — I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition and error. — I have lived to see the rights of men...idea of it. — I have lived to see thirty millions qf people, indignant and resolute, spurning at slavery, and demanding liberty with an irresistible... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 Seiten
...seen thy salvation. — I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition and error. — I have lived to see the rights of men...idea of it. — I have lived to see thirty millions qf people, indignant and resolute, spurning at slavery, and demanding liberty with an irresistible... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1955 - 384 Seiten
...salvation. I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge, "which has undermined superstition and errour. — I have "lived to see the rights of men better understood...— I have lived to see thirty millions of people, p. B. 5 " indignant and resolute, spurning at slavery, and demanding " liberty with an irresistible... | |
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I have lived to it, and I could almost say, " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition and error — I have lived to see... 
