Reflections on the Revolution in France: and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event. In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris. By the Right Honourable Edmund Burke.

black and savage atrocity of mind, which super|sedes in them the common feelings of nature, as well as all sentiments of morality and religion; inso|much that these wretches are induced to bear with a sullen patience the intolerable distresses brought upon them by the violent convulsions and per|mutations that have been made in property * 1.1? The spirit of proselytism attends this spirit of fa|naticism. They have societies to cabal and cor|respond at home and abroad for the propagation of their tenets. The republic of Berne, one of

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* 1.1

Whether the following description is strictly true I know not; but it is what the publishers would have pass for true, in order to animate others. In a letter from Toul, given in one of their papers, is the following passage concerning the peo|ple of that district:
Dans la Révolution actuelle, ils ont résisté à toutes les séductions du bigotisme, aux per|sécutions et aux tracasseries des Ennemis de la Révolu|tion. Oubliant leurs plus grands intérêts pour rendre hom|mage aux vues d'ordre général qui ont determiné l'As|semblée Nationale, ils voient, sans se plaindre, supprimer cette foule d'établissemens ecclésiastiques par lesquels ils subsistoient; et même, en perdant leur siège épiscopal, la seule de toutes ces ressources qui pouvoit, ou plutôt qui devoit, en toute équité, leur être conservée; condamnés à la plus effray|ante misère, sans avoir été ni pu être entendus, ils ne murmurent point, ils res••ent fidèles aux principes du plus pur patriotisme; ils sont encore prêts à verser leur sang pour le maintien de la Constitution, qui va reduire leur Ville à la plus déplorable nullité.
These people are not supposed to have endured those sufferings and injustices in a struggle for liberty, for the same account states truly that they had been always free; their patience in beggary and ruin, and their suffering, without re|monstrance, the most flagrant and confessed injustice, if strictly true, can be nothing but the effect of this dire fanaticism. A great multitude all over France is in the same condition and the same temper.

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Title: Reflections on the Revolution in France: and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event. In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris. By the Right Honourable Edmund Burke.
Author: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Canvas: Page 226
Publication: London :: printed for J. Dodsley,; 1790.

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