Reflections on the European Revolution of 1848Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans., 1848 - 192 pages |
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... interest , and the feeling , general in Paris , that the affair should be hushed up , were not favourable signs for the monarchy . Sentenced by the Chamber of Peers to hard labour at the hulks for life , in vain application for mercy ...
... interest , and the feeling , general in Paris , that the affair should be hushed up , were not favourable signs for the monarchy . Sentenced by the Chamber of Peers to hard labour at the hulks for life , in vain application for mercy ...
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... interests of the people . Modern governments must , at any rate , preserve to the last moment the shows of liberty ; however disposed to deny the substance . Well for them that by a benevolent necessity they are so compelled - their per ...
... interests of the people . Modern governments must , at any rate , preserve to the last moment the shows of liberty ; however disposed to deny the substance . Well for them that by a benevolent necessity they are so compelled - their per ...
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... interest out- side its walls , are only available for the man in office , not for the world at large . The tone taken by the author is that of one who is dealing with criminals - forgetting that rebellion , become successful , has ...
... interest out- side its walls , are only available for the man in office , not for the world at large . The tone taken by the author is that of one who is dealing with criminals - forgetting that rebellion , become successful , has ...
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... interests , the excess of competition , or the despotism of capital . That nothing of this had been done is sufficiently proved by the fact of the demand itself , and the consequent panic that beset the whole of society from the palace ...
... interests , the excess of competition , or the despotism of capital . That nothing of this had been done is sufficiently proved by the fact of the demand itself , and the consequent panic that beset the whole of society from the palace ...
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... interest continued to be identified with the profession of Jacobin doctrines ; and he maintained his connexion with their advocates until the tide of republican agitation rose high enough to float him into power . Once 72 REFLECTIONS ON ...
... interest continued to be identified with the profession of Jacobin doctrines ; and he maintained his connexion with their advocates until the tide of republican agitation rose high enough to float him into power . Once 72 REFLECTIONS ON ...
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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.