The Origin and Principles of the American Revolution, Compared With the Origin and Principles of the French Revolution (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Gentz, Friedrich Von

 
9781332909155: The Origin and Principles of the American Revolution, Compared With the Origin and Principles of the French Revolution (Classic Reprint)

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Highwayman, who murders a traveller, act upon the same principles; the plain sense of mankind will still see the same difference between them, that is here proved between the American and French Revolutions. - The difference between right and wrong.h r.

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RiJCIPLMS, c. i fl ER evolution of North. A merica, had, in .tl course, pf events, been the newest neijgfhbour to tjiat of. Fjancci. A very cofisiiderable paft of those, wha yfore; co teinippraries and witnesses of Jatter had likewise survived the former. Some of the most impoj;t persojjages -who made a figure in the French revolution, scpce ten ye before, had been active on the theatre of that i, A mericai, The example of this undertaking crowned w;ith the most complete success, nuist have had a moro immediate and powerful influence upon those, who destroy. ed the old government of France than the, e;xample of any earlier European revolution: the circuiinstancea, in which. France was at the breaking out of her revolW:ion, had been if not wholly, yet for the greatest )jrt broiight on by the part she had taken in that of A merica. In the conduct, and language of most of the founders of ih Freh revolution, it was impossible not to perceive an endeavor to imitate the coiuse, the plans, the measures, the forms, and, in part, the language of those, who had conducted that of A merica;- and to consider this, upon all occasions, as at once the model, and the justification of their own.
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