 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 - Էջ 82Edmund Burke - 1807Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | John Keane - 2003 - 670 էջ
...Sovereign of your people." Price had concluded with a spirited defense of thirty million French people "demanding liberty with an irresistible voice; their...and an arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects."73 Burke noted that the bulk of Price's sermon like Paine's letter was devoted not to the... | |
 | Steven P. Sondrup, Virgil Nemoianu, Gerald Gillespie - 2004 - 500 էջ
....... 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.... And now, methinks, I see the ardour for liberty catching and spreading; a general amendment beginning... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - 2004 - 612 էջ
...salvation. 1 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... | |
 | Robert Gibson - 2004 - 336 էջ
...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... | |
 | Gareth Stedman Jones - 2005 - 300 էջ
...Relative to That Event (1790) (Harmondsworth, 1968), pp. 157-9. Price in the same passage had referred to 'their king led in triumph, and an arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects'. Burke took this as a reference to the events of October 5-6 1789, when the people of Paris forced the... | |
 | Maurice Ogborn - 2005 - 320 էջ
...of knowledge, which has undermined superstition and error. — I have lived to see the rights of man better understood than ever; and nations panting for...and demanding liberty with an irresistible voice. Lest the reader hastily judge Price in the light of what came after, remember that Price died in 1791... | |
 | Maurice Ogborn - 2005 - 320 էջ
...of knowledge, which has undermined superstition and error. — I have lived to see the rights of man better understood than ever; and nations panting for...thirty millions of people, indignant and resolute, spuming at slavery, and demanding liberty with an irresistible voice. Lest the reader hastily judge... | |
 | Lynn Hunt - 2007 - 284 էջ
...Benjamin Franklin and frequent critic of the English government, waxed lyrical on the new rights of man. "I have lived to see the rights of men better understood...liberty, which seemed to have lost the idea of it." Outraged by Price's naive enthusiasm for the "metaphysical abstractions" of the French, the well-known... | |
 | Craig Nelson - 2007 - 436 էջ
...speech concluded by noting that he was overjoyed to have "lived to see thirty millions of people . . . demanding liberty with an irresistible voice, their...arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects." Like the great majority of his noble betters, Burke was consumed with the idea that state reform would... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 էջ
...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...idea of it. — I have lived to see thirty millions qf people, indignant and resolute, spurning at slavery, and demanding liberty with an irresistible... | |
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