The Example of France, a Warning to BritainW. Richardson, 1794 - 256 pages |
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abfolutely Affembly affert affignats affociations againſt alfo anarchy ARTHUR YOUNG becauſe beſt blood cafe cauſe claffes confequence conftitution confufion Convention Crown dæmons declaration deftruction election England Engliſh English reformers equality eſtabliſhed evil Example of France exifted exiſtence experiment expreffions fafe faid fame fays Paine fecurity feems fent fentiments fhall fhew fhould fince firſt fituation flaves fociety fome fomething foon French French Revolution friends ftate fuch fufficient fuppofe fupport furely fyftem happineſs Houfe of Commons Houſe inftance intereſt itſelf Jacobin Jacobin clubs juftice King kingdom lefs legiſlation legiſlature liberty meaſure ment minifter moft Monit moſt muſt nation neceffary obfervation paffage paffed Paris parliament peace perfonal repreſentation pike plunder poffefs poffible prefent prefs prifons principles purpoſe queſtion raiſed reafon reform refpect refult repreſentatives Revolution ruin ſpeak ſpirit ſtate ſuch ſyſtem thefe themſelves theory theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion uſe whofe
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Page 90 - If they really were the representatives of the people, they might in theory be good, or better ; but they would be something else than what they are.
Page 250 - Like three distinct powers in mechanics, they jointly impel the machine of government in a direction different from what either, acting by itself, would have done ; but at the same time in a direction partaking of each, and formed out of all ; a direction which constitutes the true line of the liberty and happiness of the community: LET us now consider these constituent parts of the sovereign power, or parliament,
Page 250 - Thus every branch of our civil polity, supports and is supported, regulates and is regulated, by the rest : for the two houses naturally drawing in two directions of opposite interest, and the prerogative in another still different from them both, they mutually keep each other from exceeding their proper limits...
Page 169 - To bear the ills they have, Than fly to others that they know not of.
Page 28 - No man mould be accufed, arrefted, or held in confinement, except in cafes determined by the law, and according to the forms which it has prefcribed. All who promote, folicit, execute, or caufe to be executed, arbitrary orders, ought to be puniihed : and...
Page 152 - The shades of PENN, of HAMPDEN, and of SYDNEY hover over your heads, and the moment without doubt approaches in which the French will bring congratulations to the NATIONAL CONVENTION OF GREAT BRITAIN.
Page 216 - There is no criterion of duty to any man but in the exercise of his private judgment. Has coercion any tendency to enlighten the judgment? Certainly not.
Page 177 - I compare it to something kept behind a curtain, about which there is a great deal of bustle and fuss, and a wonderful air of seeming solemnity; but when, by any accident, the curtain happens to be open, and the company see what it is, they burst into laughter.
Page 92 - Conftitution is fully eftablifhed, the fame powerful weapon which has enabled their anceftors to eftablifh it. It is ftill from their liberality alone that the King can obtain fubfidies; and in thefe days, when every thing is rated by pecuniary eftimation, when gold is become the great moving fpring of...
Page 171 - ... fact, that we did not owe our liberty to the identical evils which they want to expunge.