Europe, Or, A General Survey of the Present Situation of the Principal Powers: With Conjectures on Their Future ProspectsO. Everett, 1822 - 451 strán (strany) |
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... less powerful and active than it was , they must have sunk under the load of so much oppression and contumely ; and Europe would now have been grovelling in the barbarism of the earliest feudal times , or more . probably would have ...
... less powerful and active than it was , they must have sunk under the load of so much oppression and contumely ; and Europe would now have been grovelling in the barbarism of the earliest feudal times , or more . probably would have ...
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... less degrees , every part of Christendom , except Russia and the United States , which from precisely oppo- site causes are entirely exempt from its influence . This collision of interests is not an obscure con- spiracy , or an ...
... less degrees , every part of Christendom , except Russia and the United States , which from precisely oppo- site causes are entirely exempt from its influence . This collision of interests is not an obscure con- spiracy , or an ...
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... less degree of immediate positive evil . This doctrine is admirable : and the people ask for nothing better , than that their rulers would attend to it , and introduce of their own ac- cord the necessary changes . But suppose that the ...
... less degree of immediate positive evil . This doctrine is admirable : and the people ask for nothing better , than that their rulers would attend to it , and introduce of their own ac- cord the necessary changes . But suppose that the ...
Strana 22
... less cost from the gentler operations of nature . They look with distrust and apprehension upon revolutions , however just the principles and however probable the ultimate benefit . While they are waiting , the ardent and ambitious rush ...
... less cost from the gentler operations of nature . They look with distrust and apprehension upon revolutions , however just the principles and however probable the ultimate benefit . While they are waiting , the ardent and ambitious rush ...
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... less degrees to all , and by the progress of knowl- edge , which , however at times misapplied , always tends , in its general results , to the public good . Admitting then that political improvement is one of the objects to be effected ...
... less degrees to all , and by the progress of knowl- edge , which , however at times misapplied , always tends , in its general results , to the public good . Admitting then that political improvement is one of the objects to be effected ...
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Strana 409 - If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of either country then residing in the other shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects without molestation or hindrance; and all women and children scholars of every faculty, cultivators of the earth, artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen, unarmed and inhabiting unfortified towns, villages, or places, and in general all others...
Strana 409 - ... in their persons, nor shall their houses or goods be burnt or otherwise destroyed, nor their fields wasted by the armed force of the enemy...
Strana 409 - ... all women and children, scholars of every faculty, cultivators of the earth, artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen unarmed and inhabiting unfortified towns, villages, or places, and in general all others whose occupations are for the common subsistence and benefit of mankind, shall be allowed to continue their respective employments, and shall not' be molested in their persons, nor shall their houses...
Strana 298 - Rousseau, which is not without a certain analogy in its forms to that of Burke. The principal of the Jesuits' college one day inquired of him by what art he had been able to write so well ;
Strana 302 - As regards merely the use of unpremeditated language, it is far from being a difficult attainment. A writer, whose opportunities of observation give weight to his opinion, says, in speaking of the style of the younger Pitt, " This profuse and interminable flow of words is not in itself either a rare or remarkable endowment. It is wholly a thing of habit, and is exercised by every village lawyer with various degrees of power and grace.