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" But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions/ which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften... "
Lectures on the History of the French Revolution - Page 184
by William Smyth - 1855
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The Port Folio

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1814 - 652 pages
...kept alive even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom." France then' flourished under" all the pleasing illusions which made power gentle...sentiments which beautify and soften private society."* While at Paris, Peter was not less intent upon political, than other objects. He proposed a treaty...
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Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from ...

Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...to submit to elegance, and gave a domination vanquisher of laws, to be subdued by manners. But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions,...harmonized the different shades of life, and which by a blind assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society,...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...to submit to elegance, and gave a domination vanquisher of laws, to be subdued by manners. But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions,...harmonized the different shades of life, and which by a blind assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society,...
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Sonnets, and Other Poems

William Lisle Bowles - English poetry - 1805 - 216 pages
...to submit to elegance, and gave a domination vanquisher of laws to be subdued by manners. " But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions,...obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shadesof life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which...
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 1

Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...to submit to elegance, and gave a domination vanquisher of laws, to be subdued by manners. But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions,...harmonized the different shades of life, and which by a blind assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society,...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 1

1833 - 796 pages
...from that which now threatens us with moral degradation and political ruin — " All theple.-ising illusions which made power gentle, and obedience liberal,...which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into polities the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 15

1849 - 782 pages
...government. Hence he reproaches the French innovators in terms of the most attractive yet lofty wisdom: "all the pleasing illusions which made power gentle...soften private society, are to be dissolved by this naw, conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off;...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...and gave a domination vanquibher of laws, tobe subdued by manners. But now all is to be changed. Alt the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and...liberal, which harmonized the different shades of Hfr, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and...
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A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund ..., Volume 2

George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...submit to elegance, and gave a domination vanquisher of laws, to be subdued by manners. " But now, all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions,...private society, are to be dissolved by this new, conquiring empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off; all...
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A memoir of the political life of ... Edmund Burke

George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...submit to elegance, and gave a domination vanquisher of laws, to be subdued by manners. " But now, all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions,...private society, are to be dissolved by this new, conquiring empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off; all...
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