Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III: To which is Added Remarks on Party, and an Appendix, Svazek 3Lea and Blanchard, 1844 |
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... perhaps no other act of legislative power ever excited . It may be said , without a figure of speech , to have raised one universal shout of ex- ultation through the whole expanse of that vast and popu- lous country . The language ...
... perhaps no other act of legislative power ever excited . It may be said , without a figure of speech , to have raised one universal shout of ex- ultation through the whole expanse of that vast and popu- lous country . The language ...
Strana 33
... perhaps as brave , as themselves ; but the rabble were infuriated , and they had nothing to lose ; the Parisian burghers were calm , and had shops , and wives , and children ; and they were fain to be still , in order that no outrage ...
... perhaps as brave , as themselves ; but the rabble were infuriated , and they had nothing to lose ; the Parisian burghers were calm , and had shops , and wives , and children ; and they were fain to be still , in order that no outrage ...
Strana 38
... carried in the event of a capital punishment being awarded in the first instance . But the leaders craftily prevented this result , which they foresaw , and the Convention , by a blunder perhaps unexampled in 38 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION .
... carried in the event of a capital punishment being awarded in the first instance . But the leaders craftily prevented this result , which they foresaw , and the Convention , by a blunder perhaps unexampled in 38 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION .
Strana 39
... perhaps unexampled in the proceedings of a great body of men acting in their deliberative capacity , suffered the question of the appeal to be decided before the facts were known , or the circumstan- ces had occurred which were ...
... perhaps unexampled in the proceedings of a great body of men acting in their deliberative capacity , suffered the question of the appeal to be decided before the facts were known , or the circumstan- ces had occurred which were ...
Strana 49
... perhaps no such testimony is stronger than that of the correspondence published after Robespierre's downfall in May 1794 ; to parts of which I have already referred . The Committee of Public Safety had , according to its usual policy of ...
... perhaps no such testimony is stronger than that of the correspondence published after Robespierre's downfall in May 1794 ; to parts of which I have already referred . The Committee of Public Safety had , according to its usual policy of ...
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Strana 195 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them : thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Strana 128 - I think they have done right in giving exemplary damages; to enter a man's house by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish inquisition; a law under which no Englishman would wish to live an hour...
Strana 195 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Strana 262 - Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Strana 146 - I scarcely ever met with a better companion ; he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge ; but a thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his life stained with every vice, and his conversation full of blasphemy and indecency. These morals he glories in — for shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted. He told us himself, that in this time of public dissension he was resolved to make his fortune.
Strana 126 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason...
Strana 131 - I have suffered myself to be so too long. For some time I have beheld with silent indignation the arbitrary measures of the minister. I have often drooped and hung down my head in council, and disapproved by my looks those steps which I knew my avowed opposition could not prevent. I will do so no longer, but openly and boldly speak my sentiments.
Strana 128 - ... higher jurisdictions should declare my opinion erroneous, I submit, as will become me, and kiss the rod ; but I must say, I shall always consider it as a rod of iron for the chastisement of the people of Great Britain.
Strana 184 - ... ought to be tried, before we give up the republican form altogether; for that mind must be really depraved, which would not prefer the equality of political rights, which is the foundation of pure republicanism, if it can be obtained consistently with order. Therefore, whoever by his writings disturbs the present order of things, is really blameable, however pure his intentions may be, and he was sure Mr. Adams
Strana 203 - Robespierre, whose practice of piety is the murder of his own sovereign, who exhorts all mankind to embrace the same faith, and to assassinate their kings for the honour of God ; — to the friendship of Barrere, who avows in the face of all Europe that the fundamental article of the revolutionary government of France is the ruin and annihilation of the British empire ; — or, finally, to whatever may be the accidental caprice of any new band of malefactors, who, in the last convulsions of their...