 | 1808 - 556 pages
...fuffered the K ing to efcape, it would have been an att of juftice and generality wholly unexampled ; am! to have granted him even his life, would have been one among the more rare efforts of virtue. The (hort interval between the depofal and death of princes i* become proverbial ; and though there may... | |
 | Charles James Fox - 1808 - 454 pages
...the other side, that if the republican government had suffered the King to escape, it would have been an act of justice and generosity wholly unexampled;...concerned, I doubt whether a single instance can be found, where liberty has been granted to a deposed monarch. Among the modes of destroying persons in such... | |
 | 1808 - 606 pages
...blame, if the government had suffered the king to escape, Mr. Fox remarks that 'It would have been an act of justice and generosity wholly unexampled ; and to have granted him bis life, would have been one among the mure rare acts of -virtue.' With respect to the example that... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...the other side, that if the republican government had suffered the king to escape, it would have been an act of justice and generosity wholly unexampled;...concerned, I doubt whether a single instance can be found, where liberty has been granted to a deposed monarch. Among the modes of destroying persons in such... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 432 pages
...Government had suffered the King to escape, it would have been an act of justice and generosity wlmUy unexampled; and to have granted him even his life, would have been among the more rare efforts of virtue ." — P. 14. Sir Walter Scott's copy of Mr Fox's volume has... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 pages
...the other side, that if the republican government had suffered the King to escape, it would have been an act of justice and generosity wholly unexampled...concerned, I doubt whether a single instance can be found where liberty has been granted to a deposed monarch. Among the modes of destroying persons in such... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 pages
...the other side, that if the republican government had suffered the King to escape, it would have been an act of justice and generosity wholly unexampled...concerned, I doubt whether a single instance can be found, where liberty has been granted to a deposed monarch. Among the modes of destroying persons in such... | |
 | Armand Carrel, Charles James Fox - 1846 - 498 pages
...the other side, that if the republican government had suffered the king to escape, it would have been an act of justice and generosity wholly unexampled;...concerned, I doubt whether a single instance can be found, where liberty has been granted to a deposed monarch. Among the modes of destroying persons in such... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 790 pages
...the other side, that if the republican government had suffered the King to eseape, it would have been an act of justice and generosity wholly unexampled...concerned, I doubt whether a single instance can be found, where liberty has been granted to a delwsed monarch. Among the modes of destroying persons in such... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 pages
...the other side, that if the republican government had Buffered the King to escape, it would have been an act of justice and generosity wholly unexampled...of princes is become proverbial ; and though there mny be some few examples on the other side, ns far as life is. concerned, I doubt whether a single... | |
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Charles, might have given to the republic such a degree of security as any government ought to be content with. It must be confessed, however, on the other side, that if the republican government had suffered the king to escape, it would have been an... 
