Revolution Society

Although some surviving letters and memoirs do give hints.

What we do know for certain, though, is that the subsequent society was partly inspired by organisations across the English Channel, including the London Revolution Society, which was founded in 1788, nominally to mark the centenary of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and also its counterparts in Norwich and Sheffield, and also the wider anti-slavery movement.

There's also the legacy of the American Revolution, which was driven as it was by so many lawyers and pressmen.

That was also a huge influence on this.

Not sufficiently content with abusing the National Assembly, a great part of his work is taken up with abusing Dr.

Pierce, one of the best-hearted men that lives, and the two societies in England known by the name of the Revolution Society and the Society for Constitutional Information.

Dr.

Price had preached a sermon on the 4th of November 1789, being the anniversary of what is called in England the Revolution, which took place 1688.

The means must be an obliteration of knowledge, and it has never yet been discovered how to make man unknow his knowledge or unthink his thoughts.

Mr. Burke is laboring in vain to stop the progress of knowledge, and it comes with the worst grace from him, as there is a certain transaction known in the city which renders him suspected of being a pensioner in a fictitious name.

This may account for some strange doctrine he has advanced in his book, which though he points it at the Revolution Society, is effectually directed against the whole nation.

Quote, The King of England, says he, holds his crown, for it does not belong to the nation, according to Mr. Burke, in contempt of the choice of the Revolution Society, who have not a single vote for a king among them, either individually or collectively, and his majesty's heirs, each in their time and order, will come to the crown with the same contempt of their choice with which his majesty has succeeded to that which he now wears.

Not sufficiently content with abusing the National Assembly, a great part of his work is taken up with abusing Dr.

Pierce, one of the best-hearted men that lives, and the two societies in England known by the name of the Revolution Society and the Society for Constitutional Information.

Dr.

Price had preached a sermon on the 4th of November 1789, being the anniversary of what is called in England the Revolution, which took place 1688.

The means must be an obliteration of knowledge, and it has never yet been discovered how to make man unknow his knowledge or unthink his thoughts.

Mr. Burke is laboring in vain to stop the progress of knowledge, and it comes with the worst grace from him as there is a certain transaction known in the city which renders him suspected of being a pensioner in a fictitious name.

This may account for some strange doctrine he has advanced in his book, which though he points it at the revolution society, is effectually directed against the whole nation.

Quote, The King of England, says he, holds his crown, for it does not belong to the nation, according to Mr. Burke, in contempt of the choice of the revolution society, who have not a single vote for a king among them either individually or collectively, and his majesty's heirs each in their time and order will come to the crown with the same contempt of their choice with which his majesty has succeeded to that which he now wears.