A Short View Of The Rise And Progress Of Freedom In Modern Europe As Connected With The Causes Which Led To The French Revolution With A Vindication Of The English Constitution In Answer To The Calumnies Of Thomas Paine Etc

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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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T131363 With a half-title. London: printed for W. Richardson, 1793. [4], iv,132p.; 8°