A Short View Of The Rise And Progress Of Freedom In Modern Europe

Excerpt from A Short View of the Rise and Progress of Freedom in Modern Europe, as Connected With the Causes Which Led to the French Revolution: To Which Is Added a Refutation of Certain Erroneous and Inflammatory Doctrines Newly Propagated, for the Dangerous Purposes of Misleading the People, and Subverting the Established Order of Society; With a Vindication of the English Constitution Arbitrary and abfolute power can be fup ported by lawlefs force and the edge of the fword in all countries and climates, Whilflfi the community can be retained in a Rate of dejection and abject ig norance arm but a rufh againfl: the breai't of the fubmi ive Have and he {hrinks before it: but when during the long intervals of peace, and the acci dental periods of repofe which fufpended the exter minating fieel, and interrupted the work ofdeath, the human faculties had time to expand and acquire vigour, then was all the machinery of {late intrigue fet in motion, in order to reprefs this inquifitive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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