 | T. Dundas Pillans - 1905 - 214 pages
...remarking that, if they were due to character rather than to accident, then the French people "were not fit " for liberty, and must have a strong hand,...like that of " their former masters, to coerce them." While Fox, Sheridan, and the other Whig leaders acclaimed the uprising with enthusiasm, Burke proceeded... | |
 | 1917 - 722 pages
...ereignisse : " It is true that this may be no more than a sudden explosion; if so, no indication can be taken from it ; but if it should be character rather...like that of their former masters to coerce them. Men must have a certain fund of natural moderation to qualify them for freedom, else it becomes noxious... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 238 pages
...explosion, but if it should happen to be character rather than accident, then the people would need a strong hand like that of their former masters to coerce them ; that all depended upon the French having wise heads among them, and upon these wise heads, if such... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1852 - 590 pages
...shocking manner. It is true that this may be no more than a sudden explosion ; if so, no indication can be taken from it ; but if it should be character rather than accident, then that people are not Jit for liberty, and must have a strong hundlike that of their former masters to coerce them.' —... | |
 | Frederick Dreyer - 1979 - 104 pages
..."old Parisian ferocity" had again erupted. It signified nothing if that eruption had been accidental. "But if it should be character rather than accident,...like that of their former masters to coerce them." In order to qualify for civil freedom men had to exhibit a degree of "natural moderation."55 The later... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1984 - 512 pages
...shocking manner. It is true, that this may be no more than a sudden explosion: If so no indication can be taken from it. But if it should be character rather...like that of their former masters to coerce them. Men must have a certain fund of natural moderation to qualifye them for Freedom, else it become noxious... | |
 | James Conniff - 1994 - 384 pages
...is impossible not to admire; but the old Parisian ferocity has broken out in a shocking manner . . . But if it should be character rather than accident,...must have a Strong hand like that of their former master to coerce them." 11 Even such a landmark event as the Fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789,... | |
 | Conor Cruise O'Brien - 1996 - 404 pages
...shocking manner. It is true, that this may be no more than a sudden explosion: If so no indication can be taken from it. But if it should be character rather...like that of their former masters to coerce them. Men must have a certain fund of natural moderation to qualify them for Freedom, else it become noxious... | |
 | Conor Cruise O'Brien - 1996 - 390 pages
...shocking manner. It is true, that this may be no more than a sudden explosion: If so no indication can be taken from it. But if it should be character rather...like that of their former masters to coerce them. Men must have a certain fund of natural moderation to qualify them for Freedom, else it become noxious... | |
 | David Bebbington, Roger Swift - 2000 - 308 pages
...shocking manner. It is true, that this may be no more than a sudden explosion: If so, no indication could be taken from it. But if it should be character rather...hand like that of their former masters to coerce them ... To form a solid constitution requires Wisdom as well as spirit ... 4 * If one replaces the words... | |
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The spirit it is impossible not to admire ; but the old Parisian ferocity has broken out in a shocking manner. It is true, that this may be no more than a sudden explosion ; if so, no indication can be taken from it; but if it should be character, rather... 
