I have been spared to be a witness to two other revolutions, both glorious. And now, methinks, I see the ardour for liberty catching and spreading ; a general amendment beginning in human affairs ; the dominion of kings changed for the dominion of laws,... Dictionary of National Biography - Page 336edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
| William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 566 pages
...voice ; their king led in triumph, and an arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects. — After sharing in the benefits of one revolution, I...a witness to two other revolutions, both glorious ; and now methinks I sec the ardor for liberty catching and spreading, and a general amendment beginning... | |
| William Belsham - 1805 - 600 pages
...voice ; their king led in triumph, and an arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects. — After sharing in the benefits of one revolution, I...a witness to two other revolutions, both glorious ; and now methinks I see the ardor for liberty catching and spreading, and a general amendment beginning... | |
| William Morgan - Biographies - 1815 - 212 pages
...life to the present happy period, in which " after " sharing the benefits of one revolution, he " had been spared to be a witness to two " other revolutions, both glorious." But some of his correspondents were not quite so sanguine in their expectations from the last of these... | |
| Joseph Priestley - Theology - 1780 - 544 pages
...irresistible voice ; their king led in triumph, and an arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects. After sharing in the benefits of one revolution, I...a witness to two other revolutions, both glorious. And now, methinks, I see the ardour for liberty catching and spreading; a general amendment beginning... | |
| J. R. Miller - Great Britain - 1825 - 490 pages
...irresistible voice ; their king led in triumph, and an 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 révolutions, both glorious ; and now mcthiuks I sec the ardour for liberty catching and spreading,... | |
| Englishmen - 1837 - 528 pages
...voice, — their king led in triumph, and an arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects. After sharing in the benefits of one revolution, I...a witness to two other revolutions, both glorious ; and now methinks I see the ardour for liberty catching and spreading, and a general amendment beginning... | |
| 1858 - 498 pages
...in triumph, an arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects. After sharing in the benefit of one revolution, I have been spared to be a witness to two other revolutions, both glorious : and now methinks I see the ardour for liberty catching and spreading, and a general amendment beginning... | |
| J. R. Miller - Great Britain - 1844 - 742 pages
...irresistible voice ; their king led in triumph, and an arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects. After sharing in the benefits of one revolution, I...a witness to two other revolutions, both glorious; and now methinks I see the ardor for liberty catching and spreading, and a general amendment beginning... | |
| Thomas Wright - Caricature - 1848 - 494 pages
...irresistible voice; their king led in triumph, and an 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 revo1789.] FRATERNIZATION WITH THE FRENCH. 185 lutions, both glorious ; and now methinks I see the... | |
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