He was sorry that the constitution prevented Congress from prohibiting the importation altogether; he thought it a defect in that instrument that it allowed of such actions, it was contrary to the revolution principles, and ought not to be permitted; but as he could not do all the good he desired, he was willing to do what lay in his power.

La revolution mondiale et la responsabilite de l'esprit.

After the accession of king William and queen Mary, having attached himself to the revolution interest, he was sworn one of the council: He served in parliament for the cities of Durham, and Westminster, at different times, and distinguished himself by his speeches in the House of Commons, on several important affairs.

La revolution francaise.

His investiture with the laurel was only another proof that at moments of revolution extremists first rise to the surface.

And it gradually, and not unnaturally, seemed to the more nervous that nothing had been donethe forts were paper, the government faithless, revolution imminentone heard the wildest things.

The work of the followers of Donne and Jonson leads straight to the new school, Jonson's by giving that school a model on which to work, Donne's by producing an era of extravagance and absurdity which made a literary revolution imperative.

In the course of the great revolution mankind has learned to move his body at speeds which sometimes exceed the movement of sound, on the land, on the water, through the air and into space.

Once rebellion rises to the dignity of revolution murder becomes execution and the murderers become belligerents.

To make this clear, let V be the speed of the ship, Vs the speed of the screw, i.e., revolutions × pitch, and V the speed of the wake; then Apparent slip = Vs - V. Real slip = Vs - speed of ship with respect to the wake. "

You know there is a revolution proceeding in Turkey; my turn was coming.

Russia as the great revolution-queller, reading the Riot Act to the liberals of Europe, and sending one hundred and fifty thousand men to "crush out" the nationality of Hungary, and to revivify the power of Austria, was to them an object of reverence; but Russia the liberator of serfs, and the backer of France in the Italian War, became an object of hate and fear.

As the third quarter of the eighteenth century closed with the death of Louis XV, all intelligent French administrators recognized the dilemma; either relief must be given, or France must become insolvent, and revolution supervene upon insolvency.

As Danton himself said to me the other evening at the Cordelliers Club, 'in times of revolution authority falls into the hands of rascals!'

Above revolutions truth and justice abide, as the starry heaven abides above the tempests" (i. 188-189).

Will a revolution cease when the independence of the people who are suffering from it is threatened?

Up to the time of the French and American revolutions democracy rested largely upon certain abstract ideas of human nature.

Those who shine in it with especial splendor are Messrs. the excise collectors, with their moldy "high inspirations;" counter-jumpers, with their pathetic outgushings of the soul; old German revolution dilettanti with their Turner-Union phrases, and Berlin school-masters with their unsuccessful efforts at enthusiasm.