It is already on the wane, eclipsed by the enlarging orb of reason, and the luminous revolutions of America and France.
The Revolutions of America and France have thrown a beam of light over the world, which reaches into man.
It is the hazard and not the principle of revolutions that retards their progress.
A revolution in the state of civilization is the necessary companion of revolutions in the system of government.
All the revolutions till then had been worked within the atmosphere of a court, and never on the grand floor of a nation.
The effect of this obscurity has been that of turning everything upside down, and representing it in reverse; and among the revolutions it has thus magically produced, it has made a revolution in Theology.
The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.
Besides these there will be constantly thrown off from the revolutions of that wheel which no man can stop nor regulate, a number from every class of life connected with commerce and adventure.
There is now no prospect that France can carry revolutions into Europe on the one hand, or that the combined powers can conquer France on the other hand.
Though the status quo was thus outwardly re-established, the revolutions of 1848 had really unchained forces which made its maintenance impossible.
Revolutions are made by minorities, by orders, by classes, by individuals, but never by the people.
Was it not Napoleon who attributed revolutions to the belly?
An imaginary line passing through their centres, and terminating at their poles; round this their diurnal revolutions are performed.
It is in times of great revolutions that genius shows itself.
An intelligent observer says, 'It is also remarkable how little the people of Asiatic countries have to do in the revolutions of their governments.
All greatrevolutions have a direct tendency to increase insanity, as long as they last, and probably for some time afterwards: but in this, as in other respects, the French revolution stands alone in the number of its victims.
In the English and French bourgeois revolutions the same cry was heard and died away ineffectually.
He is content to see that the road is kept clear so that revolutions may develop themselves.
So is it in revolutions The unchained winds of men's passions sweep over a larger space than is needed.
It is also by a secret and firm alliance of men--steady to one purpose, and constant to one idea--that revolutions catch their tone and colour.
The strain on them is prodigious for it is estimated that the number of revolutions of an airplane's engine during an hour's flight is equal to the number of revolutions of an automobile's wheels during active service of a whole month.
It was of extraordinary lightness, weighing only 4410 pounds, and drove the screw at the rate of two thousand revolutions a minute, giving a speed of six knots an hour, its radius of action at this speed being thirty-five miles.
But most important is the contour, showing revolutions of the motor which one is constantly regarding as he moves the manettes of gasoline and gas back and forth.
I suggest we should do what was always suggested in the riddles and revolutions of the recent centuries.
Like allrevolutions however it must begin in the mind and he felt less and less hopeful as he watched that blank space.
Sismondi answers this buffoonery which 'very easily' pokes about in a fog, by pointing to the real changes and revolutions which take place before his own eyes.
The revolutionsin Turkey, Russia, and China fall under this heading.
No, speak no more of revolutions and conspiracies.
He had originated and accomplished two revolutions that he might become generalissimo, and had obtained nothing but mortifications and humiliations that embittered every moment of his life!
The moment had arrived in which the two revolutions of the North and of the South of the Continent joined hands on the Equator, in accordance with the plan of San Martin.
Revolutions are the work of passion: the product of a social and political condition in which the masses are permeated with discontent, because the social organs have ceased to discharge their functions.
The cause of the great religious as well as of the great political revolutions must be sought mainly in the social history.
The second would treat of the apostles and their immediate disciples, or rather, of the revolutions which religious thought underwent in the first two generations of Christianity.
All the social revolutions of humanity will be grafted on this phrase.
We know the history of the earth; cosmical revolutions of the kind which Jesus expected are only produced by geological or astronomical causes, the connection of which with spiritual things has never yet been demonstrated.
Having taken a proper portion of the melada into the centrifugal, the operator starts it to revolving, and by means of a friction clutch makes such connection with the engine as gives it about 1,500 revolutions per minute.
This cutter is provided with three knives fastened to the three spokes of a cast iron wheel which makes about 250 revolutions per minute, carrying the knives with a shearing motion past a dead knife.
When we compare it with those revolutions which have, during the last sixty years, overthrown so many ancient governments, we cannot but be struck by its peculiar character.
The continental revolutions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries took place in countries where all trace of the limited monarchy of the middle ages had long been effaced.
And yet this revolution, of all revolutions the least violent, has been of all revolutions the most beneficent.
To its influence on the fate of great communities may be ascribed most of the revolutions and counterrevolutions recorded in history.
Another reason could be added to this: the inevitable decrease of credit, by means of which alone all the old governments could obtain fresh loans, in proportion as the probability of revolutions increased.
Revolutions have now acquired such sanguinary associations that it is important to bear in mind that by "revolution" Paine always means simply a change or reformation of government, which might be and ought to be bloodless.
The character therefore of the revolutions of the present day distinguishes itself most definitively by grounding itself on the system of representative government, in opposition to the hereditary.
Two Revolutions have taken place, those of America and France; and both of them have rejected the unnatural compounded system of the English government.
Let us then do honour to revolutions by justice, and give currency to their principles by blessings.
It is therefore her immediate interest that all nations shall be as free as herself; that revolutions shall be universal; and since the trial of Louis XVI.
To right and left in rhythmical revolutions swept those masses, doubling again and again upon themselves with a precision of movement that passes understanding.
We obtain by the annals preserved or recovered of many such nations, a tolerable view of this part of their history, and even an insight into earlier times, when similar revolutions must have happened.
If we had complete series of maps by chronological order upon America; we should find therein the materials for a comparative historical geography, and successive ethnography, showing the gradual revolutions of mankind.
Many revolutions must have followed these contests: some of which are recorded in the Apalachian region of the United States, in the Mexican table land, in Hayti &c.
But, however rapid, or however complete the revolutions may have been, no sensible interruption occurred in the continued flow of business.
The Tory conceived that he could not better prove his hatred of revolutionsthan by attacking a government to which a revolution had given birth.
Hampden, Pym, Vane, Cromwell, are discriminated from the ablest politicians of the succeeding generation, by all the strong lineaments which distinguish the men who produce revolutions from the men whom revolutions produce.
The principal statesmen of the reign of Charles the Second were trained during the civil war and the revolutions which followed it.
But surely it was not strange that the majority of the nobles, and of the deputies chosen by the commons, should approve of revolutions which the nobles and commons had effected.
It is the character of such revolutions that we always see the worst of them at first.
The Civil War disturbed even the quiet cloisters and bowling-greens of Cambridge, produced violent revolutions in the government and discipline of the colleges, and unsettled the minds of the students.
The conduct of her last Parliament made it clear that one of those greatrevolutions which policy may guide but cannot stop was in progress.
Dupleix, not inferior in talents for negotiation and intrigue to any European who has borne a part in the revolutions of India, was ill qualified to direct in person military operations.
The difference in this respect, we conceive, was not in the character of the men, but in the character of the revolutions by means of which they rose to power.
This editor, apparently, would have had the English Revolution of 1688 end as the Revolutions of Spain and Naples ended in our days.
This man had played an important part in all therevolutions which, since the time of Surajah Dowlah, had taken place in Bengal.
But while the royal prerogatives were acquiring strength at the expense of the nobility, two great revolutions took place, distined to be the parents of many revolutions, the invention of Printing, and the reformation of the Church.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revolutions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
