Vindiciae Gallicae Defence of the French Revolution And Its English Admirers Ag
Vindiciae Gallicae Defence of the French Revolution And Its English Admirers Ag
James Mackintosh
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He will remark the unpre- fuming humility by which it gradually gained the favour and divided the power of the Ma- gistrate; the haughty and defpotic tone in which it afterwards gave law to Sovereigns and fubjects ; the zeal with which, in the firfl defpcrate moments of decline, it armed the people againft the Magistrate, and aimed at re-eftablifhing fpiritual defpotifmon the ruins of civil order ; and the afylum which it at laft found acrainft the hostilities ofreafonin the perogatives of temp...oral defpotifm, of which it had fo long been the implacable foe. The firfl: and laft cf thele periods will prove, that the Priefthocd are fervilely devoted when they are weak. The fecond and third, that they are dangeroufly ambitious when ftrong. In a ftate of feeblenefs, they are dangerous to liberty ; ( 10! ) liberty; pofteffed of power, they are danger- ous to civil government itfelf. But the laft period of their progrefs will appear peculiarly connected with the ftate. Of France. There was no protection for the opulence and ex- igence * of the European Priefthood in an enlightened period, but the Throne.
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