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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... tion loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation itself ; and that if we were to examine the divine fabrics by our ideas of ...
... tion loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation itself ; and that if we were to examine the divine fabrics by our ideas of ...
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... tion , I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature , which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please ; but owning this , I still insist in charging it to political regulations ...
... tion , I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature , which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please ; but owning this , I still insist in charging it to political regulations ...
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... tion of gunnery , cannoneering , bombarding , mining , and all these species of artificial , learned , and refined cruelty , in which we are now so expert , and which make a principal part of what politicians have taught us to believe ...
... tion of gunnery , cannoneering , bombarding , mining , and all these species of artificial , learned , and refined cruelty , in which we are now so expert , and which make a principal part of what politicians have taught us to believe ...
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... tion offered to nature , and a constraint upon the human mind , it needs only to look upon the sanguinary measures , and in- struments of violence , which are everywhere used to sup- port them . Let us take a review of the dungeons ...
... tion offered to nature , and a constraint upon the human mind , it needs only to look upon the sanguinary measures , and in- struments of violence , which are everywhere used to sup- port them . Let us take a review of the dungeons ...
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... tion to that of the unhappy majority ; but there are other circumstances which place them in a far lower condition . Not only their understandings labour continually , which is the severest labour , but their hearts are torn by the ...
... tion to that of the unhappy majority ; but there are other circumstances which place them in a far lower condition . Not only their understandings labour continually , which is the severest labour , but their hearts are torn by the ...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ... Edmund Burke Visualização integral - 1889 |
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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.