The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellaniesGeorge Bell & sons, 1889 |
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... common - place lamentations upon the decay of trade , the increase of taxes , and the high price of labour and ... House of Commons is swept into this grand reservoir of politica As to the composition , it bears a striking and THE ...
... common - place lamentations upon the decay of trade , the increase of taxes , and the high price of labour and ... House of Commons is swept into this grand reservoir of politica As to the composition , it bears a striking and THE ...
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... parliament voted £ 650,000 towards the discharge of the navy debt . This sum could not be applied solely to the ... House of Commons , in the following session , that the navy debt carry- ing interest was , on the 31st of December ...
... parliament voted £ 650,000 towards the discharge of the navy debt . This sum could not be applied solely to the ... House of Commons , in the following session , that the navy debt carry- ing interest was , on the 31st of December ...
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... House of Commons to com . pliment the crown with a sort of juridical declaration of a title to the company's acquisitions in India ; which the crown , on its part , with the best air in the world , was to bestow upon the public . Then ...
... House of Commons to com . pliment the crown with a sort of juridical declaration of a title to the company's acquisitions in India ; which the crown , on its part , with the best air in the world , was to bestow upon the public . Then ...
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... House of Commons the offer , as it was natural , of £ 400,000 was very well relished But nothing could be more disgustful than the £ 80,000 whicl the company had divided amongst themselves . A violen tempest of public indignation and ...
... House of Commons the offer , as it was natural , of £ 400,000 was very well relished But nothing could be more disgustful than the £ 80,000 whicl the company had divided amongst themselves . A violen tempest of public indignation and ...
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... parliament has sat and business far advanced , without American representatives . Nay , by this time it may ... House of Commons , as the sole judge of such contests ? It would undoubtedly be a glorious sight to have eight or ...
... parliament has sat and business far advanced , without American representatives . Nay , by this time it may ... House of Commons , as the sole judge of such contests ? It would undoubtedly be a glorious sight to have eight or ...
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Página 74 - Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
Página 476 - State, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Página 92 - Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 508 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Página 467 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
Página 454 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is (let me say) of no mean force in the government of mankind.
Página 508 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood, that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another ; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation ; the cement is gone ; the cohesion is loosened ; and every thing hastens to decay and dissolution.
Página 468 - Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states, that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Página 507 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.