A View of the Causes and Consequences of English Wars: From the Invasion of this Country by Julius Cæsar to the Present Time. By Anthony RobinsonJ. Johnson, 1798 - 241 pages |
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Page v - God loves from Whole to Parts : But human foul Muft rife from Individual to the Whole. Self-love but ferves the virtuous mind to wake, As the fmall pebble ftirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle ftrait fucceeds, Another ftill, and ftill another fpreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, firft it will embrace ; His country next ; and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page i - Un conquérant est un homme que les dieux, irrités contre le genre humain, ont donné à la terre dans leur colère, pour ravager les royaumes, pour répandre partout l'effroi, la misère, le désespoir, et pour faire autant d'esclaves qu'il ya d'hommes libres.
Page 171 - ... had been conducted. Such was the issue of a long and bloody war, which had drained England of her wealth and people, almost entirely ruined her commerce, debauched her morals, by encouraging venality and corruption, and entailed upon her the curse of foreign connexions, as well as a national debt, which was gradually increased to an intolerable burden.
Page 100 - Lancafter ; and in thefe battles, and on the fcaffold, above fixty princes of the royal family, above one half of the nobles and principal gentlemen, and above one hundred thoufand of the common people of England, loft their lives"6.
Page 27 - ... churchyards, hoping for protection from the sacredness of the place. Whole families, after sustaining life as long as they could by eating herbs, roots, and the flesh of dogs and horses, at last died of hunger ; and you might see many pleasant villages without a single inhabitant*.
Page 241 - ... attached to peace. Upon the whole, we cannot agree with our author in his conclufion, which we will give in his own words. • ' This review of the caufes and confequences of Englifh wars has (hewn us that war has generally been made by the overbearing power of a few individuals in the ftate, for their own advantage, in contempt of the general intereft ; that it is one of the moft dreadful...
Page 241 - ... from its ravages by thofe who are properly the people, the aftive population of the ifland, obtaining their due importance and weight in the national councils. We know of no other means of accomplifhing this, but a fair reprefentation of the people in parliament ; and he who forwards this reform, without confufion or blood, is entitled, we believe, to a place, in the public eitimation, amongft the greateft benefaftors of his fpecies.
Page 239 - As, by an express provision of the treaty of 1786, the dismission of an ambassador was in future to be regarded as a virtual declaration of war...
Page ix - L'ambition & l'avarice des hommes font lés feules fources de leur malheur : les hommes veulent tout avoir, 6t ils fe rendent malheureux par le défir du fuperflu ; s'ils vouloient vivre fimplement, & fe contenter de fatisfaire aux vrais befoins...