Works of Henry Lord Brougham, Volume 5, Part 3A. and C. Black, 1872 |
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... influence which had been exerted by the general diffusion of knowledge and improvement of the people , in creating a desire for more ample privi- leges and for a better system of government . For , although some few reasoners had ...
... influence which had been exerted by the general diffusion of knowledge and improvement of the people , in creating a desire for more ample privi- leges and for a better system of government . For , although some few reasoners had ...
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... influence ) , and to have gained him over to the revolutionary party , could not by possibility have been so used , inasmuch as that gentleman assured M. Mounier , that he had never in his life seen or com- municated with a single ...
... influence ) , and to have gained him over to the revolutionary party , could not by possibility have been so used , inasmuch as that gentleman assured M. Mounier , that he had never in his life seen or com- municated with a single ...
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... influence in preparing the great change ; and the press , which over Paris and over France had for a cen- tury been working with the corruptions of the Court and the Church and the sufferings of the people , and had taken its whole tone ...
... influence in preparing the great change ; and the press , which over Paris and over France had for a cen- tury been working with the corruptions of the Court and the Church and the sufferings of the people , and had taken its whole tone ...
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... influence public opinion . The reli- gious feelings of the people were next appealed to ; but the tendency of the clergy to support the ancient institutions , and the course of hostility to the Church so early pursued by almost all ...
... influence public opinion . The reli- gious feelings of the people were next appealed to ; but the tendency of the clergy to support the ancient institutions , and the course of hostility to the Church so early pursued by almost all ...
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... influence to the provinces , and formed everywhere affiliated societies or clubs which corresponded with it , took their tone from its debates , and exercised in each town an influence like its own . Dissension , however , broke out in ...
... influence to the provinces , and formed everywhere affiliated societies or clubs which corresponded with it , took their tone from its debates , and exercised in each town an influence like its own . Dissension , however , broke out in ...
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Page 284 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them : thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Page 284 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 373 - An English Whig, who asserts the reality of the popish plot, an Irish Catholic, who denies the massacre in 1641, and a Scotch Jacobite, who maintains the innocence of Queen Mary, must be considered as men beyond the reach of argument or reason, and must be left to their prejudices.
Page 274 - It will be the duty of the Historian and the Sage in all ages to let no occasion pass of commemorating this illustrious man ; and until time shall be no more will a test of the progress which our race has made in wisdom and in virtue be derived from the veneration paid to the immortal name of WASHINGTON ! APPENDIX.
Page 273 - His courage, whether in battle or in council, was as perfect as might be expected from this pure and steady temper of soul.
Page 264 - Tantaque vis frigoris insecuta est, ut ex ilia miserabili hominum jumentorumque strage quum se quisque attollere ac levare vellet, diu nequiret, quia torpentibus rigore nervis, vix flectere artus poterant."!
Page 271 - If profound sagacity, unshaken steadiness of purpose, the entire subjugation of all the passions which carry havoc through ordinary minds, and oftentimes lay waste the fairest prospects of greatness, — nay, the discipline of those feelings which are wont to lull or to seduce genius, and to mar and to cloud over the aspect of virtue...
Page 284 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 288 - ... ought to be tried, before we give up the republican form altogether; for that mind must be really depraved, which would not prefer the equality of political rights, which is the foundation of pure republicanism, if it can be obtained consistently with order. Therefore, whoever by his writings disturbs the present order of things, is really blameable, however pure his intentions may be, and he was sure Mr. Adams
Page 293 - But of all this great man's scientific excellences, the most remarkable is the smallness, the simplicity, the apparent inadequacy, of the means which he employed in his experimental researches. His discoveries were made with hardly any apparatus at all ; and if, at any time, he had been led to employ instruments of a somewhat less ordinary description, he never rested satisfied until he had. as it were, afterwards translated the process, by resolving the problem with such simple machinery, that you...