 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1813 - 536 pages
...assist them in mocking at their rights. This preamble was followed by a decree, that there should be an absolute, perfect, and identical equality, between the president and the other members of the junta. Four of the articles of tins decree show curiously in what manner these :nen were juggling the people.... | |
 | Europe - 1813 - 544 pages
...assist them in mocking at their rights. This preamble was followed by a decree, that there should be an absolute, perfect, and identical equality) between the president and the other members of the junta. Four of the articles of this decree show curiously in what mannerthese men were juggling the people.... | |
 | 1813 - 532 pages
...assist them in mocking at their rights. This preamble was followed by a decree, that there should be an absolute, perfect, and identical equality, between the president and the other members of the junta. Four of the articles of this decree show curiously in what manner these men were juggling the people.... | |
 | John Parish Robertson, William Parish Robertson - Argentina - 1843 - 320 pages
...sinister attempts against the authority of the Junta. But the energies of this latter body were about to be paralyzed, during the remainder of its existence,...moderation was very much mortified" by the honours at first decreed to his station; and that his " probity had been offended" by his health having been publicly... | |
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... the prejudices which are favourable to tyranny, that if we should unhappily be succeeded by men of sentiments less pure than ourselves, they may not find in the customs of the people any thing to assist them in mocking at their rights. This preamble... 