 I have lived to it, and I could almost say, " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition and error — I have lived to see...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 82by Edmund Burke - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 588 pages
...salvation. — I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition and error. — I have lived to see the rights of men better understood...arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects." * * Another of these reverend gentlemen, who was wituess to some of the spectacles which Paris has... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 520 pages
...minister, Doctor Price, " to see a diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition and error. I have lived to see the rights of men better understood...it. I have lived to see thirty millions of people indignantly and resolutely spurning at slavery, and demanding liberty with an irresistible voice ;... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1904 - 724 pages
...salvation.' I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition and error ; I have lived to see the rights of men better understood...for liberty which seemed to have lost the idea of it ; 1 have lived to see thirty millions of people indignantly and resolutely spurning at slavery, and... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1904 - 608 pages
...repeat the ' Nunc Dimittis ' of Simeon, as he had lived to see thirty millions of men spurning slavery ; 'their king led in triumph, and an arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects,' and he predicted that the example of France would soon destroy the dominion both of kings and of priests,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 468 pages
...— I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge, which has undermined superstition and error. — I have lived to see the rights of men better understood...and an arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects."1 Before I proceed further, I have to remark, that Dr. Price seems rather to overvalue the... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1909 - 470 pages
...— I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge, which has undermined superstition and error. — I have lived to see the rights of men better understood...and an arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects."1 Before I proceed further, I have to remark, that Dr. Price seems rather to overvalue the... | |
 | John Martin Vincent - 1909 - 670 pages
...united have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge, which has undermined superstition and error—I have lived to see the rights of men better understood...for liberty, which seemed to have lost the idea of it.—I have lived to see thirty millions of people, indignant and resolute, spurning at slavery, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 472 pages
...salvation.—I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge, which has undermined superstition and error.—I have lived to see the rights of men better understood...for liberty which seemed to have lost the idea of it.—I have lived to see thirty millions of people, indignant and resolute, spurning at slavery, and... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...— I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge, which has undermined superstition and error. — I have lived to see the rights of men better understood...arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects." . . . I find a preacher of the Gospel profaning the beautiful and prophetic ejaculation, commonly called... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 pages
...salvation." I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition and error — I have lived to see the rights of men better understood...arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects. After sharing in the benefits of one revolution, I have been spared to be a witness to two other revolutions,... | |
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