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Common terms and phrasesaffignats antient appear aristocracy army aster asterwards authority Bastille become body Burke Burke's called canton cause character church citizens civil clergy common confiscation consider consusion contempt contrivance Court crown Declaration of Rights despotism election England English equal established estates evil exist expence fame favour Fayette France French constitution French Revolution Garde du Corps gentlemen ground hereditary honour house of commons human insormation interest justice King kingdom land legislative liberty lise mankind manner means ment millions sterling mind ministers mixed Governments mode monarchy moral National Assembly natural rights nature never nobility object Old Jewry opinion Paris Parliament persect persons political possessed present principles racter reason reform religion render republic respect revenue Revolution seel shew society spirit States-General taxes thing tion Versailles virtue whilst whole William the Conqueror wisdom Popular passagesPage 48 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts; wherein by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race... Page 48 - The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of Providence, are handed down to us, and from us in the same course and order. Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory, parts... Page 57 - ... precarious, tottering power, the discredited paper securities of impoverished fraud, and beggared rapine, held out as a currency for the support of... Page 69 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind. Page 87 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. It is an institution of beneficence ; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule. Page 133 - Who, born within the last forty years, has read one word of Collins, and Toland, and Tindal, and Chubb, and Morgan, and that whole race who called themselves Freethinkers? Who now reads Bolingbroke? Who ever read him through? Page 143 - ... approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude. Page 88 - ... civil society be the offspring of convention, that convention must be its law. That convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed under it. Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are its creatures. Page 49 - By this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a pedigree and illustrating ancestors. It has its bearings and its ensigns armorial. It has its gallery of portraits ; its monumental inscriptions ; its records, evidences, and titles. Page 115 - I may use the expression, in persons ; so as to create in us love, veneration, admiration, or attachment. But that sort of reason which banishes the affections is incapable of filling their place. These public affections, combined with manners, are required sometimes as supplements, sometimes as correctives, always as aids to law. Bibliographic information
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