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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England (English) · The Communist Manifesto (English) · The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660 (English)

The Reformation represented a conflict extending over at least 130 years, the French Revolution can hardly even now be said to have reached its close, and, if we consider it as ended, has covered more than 100 years.

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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England20th Century · English

The revolution of 1789 in France, cited as an event whose approach few contemporaries foresaw, though Burke partially did.

Rare indeed are the anticipations before 1789 of the revolution impending over France.

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The history of the French Revolution presents a somewhat similar phenomenon.

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The years which immediately preceded the French Revolution witnessed the rapid development of benevolence and philanthropy in France and throughout the civilised countries of Europe.

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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated19th Century · English

The late-eighteenth-century French Revolution, cited as an atrocity that alarmed cautious men into wishing to curtail the principles of liberty and property.

Many wise and good men, however, alarmed by the illusions of Rousseau and Godwin, and the atrocities of the French revolution, honestly believe that these principles have teeth and claws, which it is expedient to draw and pare, however constitutional they may be;

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and exactly occupies the privilege of the clergy and nobility of France, which caused the revolution of that country.

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Ancient Law19th Century · English

The upheaval of 1789 in France, presented as powerfully shaped by natural-law and state-of-nature doctrines.

It is probable, however, that the power which it ultimately acquired over the events of 1789 was not entirely owing to its popularity in France, for in the middle of the century it passed over to America.

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Looking back, however, to the period at which the theory of the state of nature acquired the maximum of political importance, there are few who will deny that it helped most powerfully to bring about the grosser disappointments of which the first French revolution was fertile.

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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom19th Century · English

The French Revolution, mentioned as a commonly cited but, per the author, insufficient explanation for France's absorptive national power.

The undoubted power which France possesses of absorbing into herself and imbuing with her national character all the populations united with her has been attributed to the French Revolution;

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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions19th Century · English

The French Revolution, treated as the historical event that overturned the land-law of the nobility in favor of the people's land-law.

I have frequently dwelt in this place on the erroneousness of the vulgar opinion which dates the extreme subdivision of the soil of France from the first French Revolution, and from the sale of the Church lands and of the estates of the emigrant nobility.

lecture v the chief and his order ¶

Possibly not many Englishmen have recognised with as much clearness as a recent French writer (Doniol, ‘La Révolution Française et la Féodalité) that the transmutation of customary and copyhold into freehold property, which has been proceeding for about forty years under the conduct of the Copyhold and Enclosure Commissioners, is the peaceful and insensible removal of a grievance which did more th …

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The Communist Manifesto19th Century · English

The French Revolution, cited as an example of how property relations change historically, having abolished feudal property in favor of bourgeois property.

The French Revolution, for example, abolished feudal property in favour of bourgeois property.

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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–166019th Century · English

The late-eighteenth-century French Revolution, used as a comparative case whose central fact, the abolition of privileged orders, is contrasted with the English Revolution's central fact.

Not the taking of the Bastille nor the execution of Louis XVI, but the night of August 4, when feudal privileges were thrown to the winds, was the central fact of the French Revolution.

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Then, just as in the French Revolution the Reign of Terror followed upon the abolition of privileges on account of the suspicion that those who had lost by the change were conspiring with foreign armies to get them back;

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The Genius of the Common Law20th Century · English

Revolution that swept away noble privilege while leaving the substance of civil law largely intact.

When the French Revolution had swept away the rank and privileges of the nobles, the substance of the civil law remained in other respects much as it had been before.

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