A Statistical, Commercial, and Political Description of Venezuela, Trinidad, Margarita, and Tobago: Containing Various Anecdotes and Observations, Illustrative of the Past and Present State of These Interesting Countries; from the French of M. Lavaysse: with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes, by the Editor [Edward Blaquière] |
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Page 447 - Great >^ mistakes in the ruling part, many wrong and inconvenient laws, and all the slips of human frailty will be borne by the people without mutiny or murmur.
Page 108 - Scotland'— a nation cast in the happy medium between the spiritless acquiescence of submissive poverty, and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth ; cool and ardent — adventurous and persevering — winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science, with an eye that never winks, and a wing that never tires; crowned as she is with the spoils of every art, and decked with the wreath of every muse...
Page 447 - And therefore, whatever form the commonwealth is under, the ruling power ought to govern by declared and received laws, and not by extemporary dictates and undetermined resolutions, for then mankind will be in a far worse condition than in the state of nature, if they shall have armed one or a few men with the joint power of a multitude, to force them to obey at pleasure the exorbitant and unlimited...
Page 447 - ... it is not to be wondered, that they should then rouse themselves, and endeavour to put the rule into such hands which may secure to them the ends for which government was at first erected; and without which, ancient names, and specious forms, are so far from being better, that they are much worse, than the state of nature, or pure anarchy; the inconveniencies being all as great and as near, but the remedy farther off and more difficult.
Page 447 - But if a long train of abuses, prevarications and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people, and they cannot but feel what they lie under, and see whither they are going; it is not to be wondered that they should then rouse themselves, and endeavor to put the rule into such hands which may secure to them the ends for which government was first erected.
Page 462 - ... oppression, anarchy, and crime — a government which will cause innocency. philanthropy, and peace to reign — a government which, under the dominion of -inexorable laws, will cause equality and liberty to triumph. " Gentlemen ! Commence your duties. I have finished mine, " The congress of the republic of Venezuela is installed. In it, from this moment, is centered the national sovereignty. We all owe to it obedience and fidelity. My sword, and those of my fellows in arms, will maintain its...
Page xii - With regard to the hope you entertain of raising the spirits of those persons with whom you are in correspondence, toward encouraging the inhabitants to resist the oppressive authority of their government, I have little more to say than that they may be certain, that whenever they are in that disposition, they may receive at your hands all the succors to...
Page 134 - ... kind of adjutants, whose duty consists of hindering any individual from quitting the ranks. If any one attempts to straggle either from hunger or fatigue, he is bitten till he resumes his place, and the culprit obeys with his head hanging down. Three or four chiefs march as the rear-guard, at five or six paces from the troop.
Page 449 - ... and be subject to a peninsular corner of the European continent. The cessions and abdications at Bayonne, the revolutions of the Escurial and Aranjuez, and the orders of the Royal Substitute, the Duke of Berg, sent to America, suffice to give virtue to the rights which till then the Americans had sacrificed to the unity and integrity of the Spanish nation. Venezuela was the first to acknowledge and generously to preserve this integrity; not to abandon the cause of its brothers as long as the...
Page 446 - Britannic Majesty, be it with forces, or with arms and ammunition, to any extent ; with the assurance, that the views of his Britannic Majesty go no further than to secure to them their independence, without pretending to any sovereignty over their country, nor even to interfere in the privileges of the people, nor in their political, civil, or religious rights.