The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen76A. Constable, 1843 |
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... ment suffering himself to be raised above his ordinary tone of easy and almost childish garrulity , he has yet attained that chi- valrous ardour of expression , which , to borrow the emphatic words of Sidney , stirs the heart like the ...
... ment suffering himself to be raised above his ordinary tone of easy and almost childish garrulity , he has yet attained that chi- valrous ardour of expression , which , to borrow the emphatic words of Sidney , stirs the heart like the ...
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... ment of the state ? The present existence of just and equal laws is not such a security . Who is to guard our guardians ? Who is to assure us that those laws will not be repealed , if our rulers can repeal them at any moment without our ...
... ment of the state ? The present existence of just and equal laws is not such a security . Who is to guard our guardians ? Who is to assure us that those laws will not be repealed , if our rulers can repeal them at any moment without our ...
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... ment , speaks with strong and just detestation of those odious oligarchies , in which an impassable barrier is placed between the nobility and the people , and all political power is treated as the hereditary privilege of a certain ...
... ment , speaks with strong and just detestation of those odious oligarchies , in which an impassable barrier is placed between the nobility and the people , and all political power is treated as the hereditary privilege of a certain ...
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... ment , show themselves wary in providing for remote dangers ? How did our ancestors display that far - sighted prudence which Mr Alison boasts as the characteristic merit of aristocratic govern- ments ? By leaving the Thames exposed to ...
... ment , show themselves wary in providing for remote dangers ? How did our ancestors display that far - sighted prudence which Mr Alison boasts as the characteristic merit of aristocratic govern- ments ? By leaving the Thames exposed to ...
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... ment of soldiers in a desperate attack , then they will accompany political success with the atrocities of a victorious storming party . All this was really the case in France . In 1789 , the French populace were as barbarous as the ...
... ment of soldiers in a desperate attack , then they will accompany political success with the atrocities of a victorious storming party . All this was really the case in France . In 1789 , the French populace were as barbarous as the ...
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