History of the Eighteenth Century and of the Nineteenth Till the Overthrow of the French Empire: With Particular Reference to Mental Cultivation and Progress, Volum 2Chapman and Hall, 1844 |
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History of the Eighteenth Century and of the Nineteenth Till the ..., Volum 2 Friedrich Christoph Schlosser Visualització completa - 1844 |
History of the Eighteenth Century and of the Nineteenth Till the ..., Volum 2 Friedrich Christoph Schlosser Visualització completa - 1844 |
History of the Eighteenth Century and of the Nineteenth Till the ..., Volum 2 Friedrich Christoph Schlosser Visualització completa - 1844 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 95 - British constitution; that it is an essential, unalterable right, in nature, engrafted into the British constitution, as a fundamental law, and ever held sacred and irrevocable by the subjects within the realm, that what a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent...
Pàgina 273 - If God should hold in his right hand all truth, and in his left the ever-active impulse and love of search after truth, although accompanied with the condition that I should ever err, and should say, ' Choose ! ' I would choose the left with humility, and say, ' Give, Father ! Pure truth belongs to thee alone...
Pàgina 97 - Everything, upon every side, was full of traps and mines. Earth below shook; heaven above menaced; all the elements of ministerial safety were dissolved. It was in the midst of this chaos of plots and counter-plots; it was in the midst of this complicated warfare against...
Pàgina 95 - I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequendy and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say, that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.
Pàgina 95 - Where popular discontents have been very prevalent; it may well be affirmed and supported, that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution, or in the conduct of Government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State, it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake.
Pàgina 133 - J'ai tâché d'honorer le nom Genevois ; j'ai tendrement aimé mes compatriotes ; je n'ai rien oublié pour me faire aimer d'eux ; on ne sauroit plus mal réussir je veux leur complaire jusque dans leur haine. Le dernier sacrifice qui me reste à faire est celui d'un nom qui me fut si cher.
Pàgina 98 - I was persuaded that government was a practical thing, made for the happiness of mankind, and not to furnish out a spectacle of uniformity, to gratify the schemes of visionary politicians.
Pàgina 113 - ... invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
Pàgina 95 - ... that what a man has honestly acquired, is absolutely his own ; which he may freely give, but which cannot be taken from him without his consent.
Pàgina 110 - twas I; I forged the letter, I disposed the picture ; I hated, I despised, and I destroy.' " I ask, my Lords, whether the revengeful temper attributed, by poetic fiction only, to the bloody African, is not surpassed by the coolness and apathy of the wily American?