The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1G. Dearborn, 1835 |
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... feel that the very ex- istence of this constitution depends upon it . Your lordships ' justice stands pre- eminent in the world , but it stands amidst a vast heap of ruins , which surround it in every corner of Europe . If you slacken ...
... feel that the very ex- istence of this constitution depends upon it . Your lordships ' justice stands pre- eminent in the world , but it stands amidst a vast heap of ruins , which surround it in every corner of Europe . If you slacken ...
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... feel for the enlightened and virtuous of all countries . I cannot tell you how sensible we have been to the attention , which the clergy of England have shown towards one of our most virtuous and respectable colleagues . You are equally ...
... feel for the enlightened and virtuous of all countries . I cannot tell you how sensible we have been to the attention , which the clergy of England have shown towards one of our most virtuous and respectable colleagues . You are equally ...
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... feel such refreshing airs of liberty , as daily raise our ardour for more . The miseries derived to mankind from superstition , under the name of religion , and of ecclesiastical tyranny , under the name of church government , have been ...
... feel such refreshing airs of liberty , as daily raise our ardour for more . The miseries derived to mankind from superstition , under the name of religion , and of ecclesiastical tyranny , under the name of church government , have been ...
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... feel experiment- ally , how severe a scourge Providence intends for the human race , when he gives one man the power over many , and arms his naturally im- potent , and feeble rage , with the hands of mil- lions , who know no common ...
... feel experiment- ally , how severe a scourge Providence intends for the human race , when he gives one man the power over many , and arms his naturally im- potent , and feeble rage , with the hands of mil- lions , who know no common ...
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... feel my eyes ache by keeping them so long intent on so bloody a prospect . I shall observe little on the Servile , the Social , the Gallic and Spanish wars ; nor upon those with Jugurtha , nor Antiochus , nor many others equally ...
... feel my eyes ache by keeping them so long intent on so bloody a prospect . I shall observe little on the Servile , the Social , the Gallic and Spanish wars ; nor upon those with Jugurtha , nor Antiochus , nor many others equally ...
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Página xii - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
Página 479 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Página 246 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Página 246 - 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 as strong as links of iron. 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.
Página 488 - As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Página 226 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Página xxix - Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Página 478 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 228 - Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government. . Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution ; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system.
Página 219 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs ; and, above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own.