| Ian Ward - 2004 - 227 pages
...'friends', Richard Price, observed: And now methinks I see the ardour for liberty catching and spreading, a general amendment beginning in human affairs, the...changed for the dominion of laws, and the dominion of priests giving way to the dominion of reason and conscience.100 The 'gift of liberty', as John Thelwall's... | |
| Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - 2006 - 362 pages
...being effected in France: "And now, methinks, I see the ardour for liberty catching and spreading; a general amendment beginning in human affairs; the...changed for the dominion of laws, and the dominion of priests giving way to the dominion of reason and conscience. Tremble all ye oppressors of the world!... | |
| Adam Sisman - 2007 - 540 pages
...on 4 November 1789, Price gave thanks that he had lived to see this 'eventful period'.* He predicted 'a general amendment beginning in human affairs; the...changed for the dominion of laws, and the dominion of priests giving way to the dominion of reason and conscience'.2 In almost every country of pre-Revolutionary... | |
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