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" I have only to consider the character of the factions which it must have left behind it. The French revolution began with great and fatal errors. These errors produced atrocious crimes. A mild and feeble monarchy was succeeded by bloody anarchy, which... "
The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh - Page 261
by Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 596 pages
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The Trial of John Peltier: Esq., for a Libel Against Napoleon Buonaparté ...

Jean-Gabriel Peltier, James Adams - Ambigu - 1803 - 494 pages
...r every principle of authority ajtid civil discipline». when every principle which enables sorr^e men to command and disposes others to obey was extirpated...covered in its cradle with blood ; when the principle of p^>; perty itself, the sheet-anchor, of sppiety, /vj^ annihilated ; when in the persons of the new...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 5

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...it must have left behind it. The French revolution began with great and fatal errours. These crrours produced atrocious crimes. A mild and feeble monarchy...covered in its cradle with blood ; when the principle of pro. perty itself, the sheet anchor of society was annihilated ; when in the persons of the new possessors,...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 3

Oratory - 1808 - 542 pages
...from the mind by atrocious theories, and flill more atrocious examples ; when every old inflitution was trampled down with contumely, and every new institution...contaminated in its source by robbery and murder, and it became separated from that education and those manners, from that general presumption of superior...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 3

Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - Oratory - 1810 - 516 pages
...uttered words which present such an overwhelming idea — But I have not now to engage in an enterpfize so far beyond my force as that of examining and judging...contaminated in its source by robbery and murder, and it became separated from that education and those manners, from that general presumption of superior...
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Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for ..., Volume 28

Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 738 pages
...few years, described the whole circle of humai» society. All this was in the order of naturer — when every principle of authority and civil discipline,...obliges us to call proprietors, it was contaminated ¡и its source by robbery and murder, and it became separated from that education and those manners,...
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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ..., Volume 28

Trials - 1820 - 742 pages
...overwhelming idea — But I have not now to engage in an enterprise so far beyond my force as lhat of examining and judging that tremendous revolution...contaminated in its source by robbery and murder, and it became separated from that education and those manners, from that general presumption of superior...
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History of the Revolution in England in 1688, comprising a view of the Reign ...

James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 pages
...ancestors." A long, able, and irrelevant dissertation follows. The orator comes to the French Revolution. "Gentlemen, the French Revolution — I must pause,...contaminated in its source by robbery and murder, and it became separated from that education and those manners, from that general presumption of superior...
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History of the revolution in England in 1688, comprising a view of ..., Volume 2

sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...The orator comes to the French Revolution. "Gentlemen, the French Revolution — I must pause, alter I have uttered words •which present such an overwhelming...contaminated in its source by robbery and murder, and it became separated from that education and those manners, from that general presumption of superior...
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History of the Revolution in England in 1688, Volume 1

Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 402 pages
...atrocious crimes. A mild and feeble monarchy was succeeded by bloody anarchy, which very shortly gave hirth to military despotism. France, in a few years, described...contaminated in its source by robbery and murder, and it hecame separated from that education and those manners, from that general presumption of superior...
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History of the Revolution in England in 1688, Volume 1

Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 394 pages
...authority and civil discipline, when every principle which enables some men to command and cliff, poses others to obey was extirpated from the mind by atrocious...contaminated in its source by robbery and murder, and it became separated from that education and those manners, from that general presumption of superior...
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