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Page 6 - 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 92 - For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Page 76 - And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: And as one gathereth eggs that are left, Have I gathered all the earth; And there was none that moved the wing, Or opened the mouth, or peeped.
Page 134 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 115 - Think of a genius not born in every country, or every time ; a man gifted by nature with a penetrating aquiline eye ; with a judgment prepared with the most extensive erudition ; with an herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour ; a man who could spend twenty years in one pursuit.
Page 115 - ... from his loins) a man capable of placing in review, after having brought together, from the...
Page 14 - And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a king.
Page 73 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Page 14 - Nevertheless, on the very day that Mr. Grey, at the desire of this small society, gave notice of his intended Motion in the House of...
Page 30 - The law is an expression of the will of the community. All citizens have a right to concur, either personally or by their representatives, in its formation. It...
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| Title | A View of the Causes and Consequences of the Present War with France ECCO 2 Eighteenth Century Collections Online 2 Volume 3, Issue 4 of Miscellanies [on English politics |
| Author | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine |
| Edition | 10, large print |
| Publisher | J. Debrett, 1794 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 138 pages |
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