The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 76Leonard Scott Publication Company, 1843 - English literature |
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... universal frenzy seizes ' mankind ; reason , experience , prudence , are alike blinded , and the very persons who are to perish in the storm are the first to ' raise its fury .'- ( i . 149. ) This is a good specimen of the superficial ...
... universal frenzy seizes ' mankind ; reason , experience , prudence , are alike blinded , and the very persons who are to perish in the storm are the first to ' raise its fury .'- ( i . 149. ) This is a good specimen of the superficial ...
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... universal equality , and an age of innocence , would have nerved peaceable men to defy the cannon of the Bastile ? Would the mob have massacred good and popular rulers for the sake of re- sembling Brutus and Timoleon ? When an homme ...
... universal equality , and an age of innocence , would have nerved peaceable men to defy the cannon of the Bastile ? Would the mob have massacred good and popular rulers for the sake of re- sembling Brutus and Timoleon ? When an homme ...
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... universal . It is impossible to guillotine a whole nation ; it is impossible to enrol a whole nation as conscripts ; but it is easy to make a whole nation miserable by disabilities and exactions . Even under the * Mr Alison enumerates ...
... universal . It is impossible to guillotine a whole nation ; it is impossible to enrol a whole nation as conscripts ; but it is easy to make a whole nation miserable by disabilities and exactions . Even under the * Mr Alison enumerates ...
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... universal . In a well governed community , it concentrates itself in the most ignorant and most destitute classes ; but the general enmity which nar- rows its limits increases its intensity . In such a country as Af- ghanistan or ...
... universal . In a well governed community , it concentrates itself in the most ignorant and most destitute classes ; but the general enmity which nar- rows its limits increases its intensity . In such a country as Af- ghanistan or ...
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... universal alarm and indignation . Tumultuous assemblies , sedi- tious harangues , and menacing outcries , were deplored as amounting in themselves to unprecedented atrocities . If a rabble of thoughtless rioters cheered for a republic ...
... universal alarm and indignation . Tumultuous assemblies , sedi- tious harangues , and menacing outcries , were deplored as amounting in themselves to unprecedented atrocities . If a rabble of thoughtless rioters cheered for a republic ...
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