The Rights of the Sovereignty Vindicated With Particular Reference to Political
The Rights of the Sovereignty Vindicated With Particular Reference to Political
John Pern Tinney
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The history of the world affords no instance of a power similar in principle, extent, and object, to that concentrated in the person of Napoleon. In his pursuit of imperial and universal supremacy, 3 91 li« regards neither the happiness of nations, the bonds of society, nor the terrors of futurity ; *' Quern nee fama Deum, nee fulmina, nee minitanti . " Murmure compressit ccclura. " With no title but that of the sword which he wields, he reigns over an immense population, diverted from all the ...pursuits of peaceful life, and taught by the spirit of all their institutions, that war is to be their habitual energy, and conquest their continual glory. To military service they sacrifice domestic feeling, personal gratification, and natural affection, and regard the honours of the camp, as the only means of particular ad- vancement. The utmost terrors of an unrelenting conscription, the apprehension of dishonour, in- separably fixed by the law to the tranquil pursuits of industry and commerce, and extended from the reluctant individual to all his family, friends, and neighbours, with the hope of fame and bril- liant reward, to be acquired in the tented field, impel the youthful mind to despise the peasant's lowly life, and make the empire of France a vast martial confederacy.
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