Reflections on the European Revolution of 1848Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans., 1848 - 192 pages |
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... human agents too — but by such acting as instruments in the hands of some overruling necessity , and not as voluntary beings executing a purpose of their own . II . Instances like these have so strongly impressed the reflecting with a ...
... human agents too — but by such acting as instruments in the hands of some overruling necessity , and not as voluntary beings executing a purpose of their own . II . Instances like these have so strongly impressed the reflecting with a ...
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... Human institutions , that have hitherto existed as if to show man's creative faculty and their own stability , now give way before the manifestations of a new spirit ; a spirit which , though working by and through him , can scarcely be ...
... Human institutions , that have hitherto existed as if to show man's creative faculty and their own stability , now give way before the manifestations of a new spirit ; a spirit which , though working by and through him , can scarcely be ...
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... human agents too - but by such acting as instruments in the hands of some overruling necessity , and not as voluntary beings executing a purpose of their own . : - II . - Instances like these have so strongly impressed the reflecting ...
... human agents too - but by such acting as instruments in the hands of some overruling necessity , and not as voluntary beings executing a purpose of their own . : - II . - Instances like these have so strongly impressed the reflecting ...
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... human progress , notwithstanding his early profession in its favour - no prophet himself , and in- fidel to the prophesyings of wiser men - secure in the machinations by which his throne had been for more than seventeen years propped up ...
... human progress , notwithstanding his early profession in its favour - no prophet himself , and in- fidel to the prophesyings of wiser men - secure in the machinations by which his throne had been for more than seventeen years propped up ...
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... human instrument of a higher Power , this was Louis - Philippe's appointed task , and he was " immortal until it was done . " While seeking his own ends , he was blindly subserving those of the Revo- lution to which from boyhood he had ...
... human instrument of a higher Power , this was Louis - Philippe's appointed task , and he was " immortal until it was done . " While seeking his own ends , he was blindly subserving those of the Revo- lution to which from boyhood he had ...
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Reflections on the European Revolution of 1848 (1848) A Superior Spirit,LIGHTNING SOURCE INC No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 114 - There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive. Wherever they are actually found, they have, in whatever state, condition, profession, or trade, the passport of Heaven to human place and honor.
Page 44 - Merciful Heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle. 0 but man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep.
Page 184 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son...
Page 7 - Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all Nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape And showed a Newton as we show an ape.
Page 118 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
Page 184 - Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds: That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Page 110 - Citizens! for my part, I will never adopt the red flag, and I will explain in a word why I will oppose it with all the strength of my patriotism. It is, citizens, because the...
Page 99 - All circumstances taken together, the French Revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world. The most wonderful things are brought about in many instances by means the most absurd and ridiculous; in the most ridiculous modes ; and, apparently, by the most contemptible instruments.
Page 99 - It looks to me as if I were in a great crisis, not of the affairs of France alone, but of all Europe, perhaps of more than Europe. All circumstances taken together, the French revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world.
Page 44 - The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.