The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Selected from the Writings, &c. of that Extraordinary Man, Alphabetically Arranged ... to which is Prefixed, a Sketch of the Life, with Some Original Anecdotes of Mr. BurkeJ.W. Meyers, and sold by W. West, 1798 - 499 páginas |
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... object , I treated it . The malady was deep ; it was complicated , in the causes and in the fymptoms . Throughout it was full of contraindicants . On one hand government , daily growing more invidious for an apparent increafe of the ...
... object , I treated it . The malady was deep ; it was complicated , in the causes and in the fymptoms . Throughout it was full of contraindicants . On one hand government , daily growing more invidious for an apparent increafe of the ...
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... Speech : " GENTLEMEN , " I decline the election . - It has ever been my rule through life , to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects . I have never been re markable for a bold , active , and fanguine pursuit 84 ( lxxxvii )
... Speech : " GENTLEMEN , " I decline the election . - It has ever been my rule through life , to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects . I have never been re markable for a bold , active , and fanguine pursuit 84 ( lxxxvii )
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... object on many accounts dear to me : and I certainly fhould very far prefer it to far prefer it to any other in the kingdom . My habits are made to it ; and it is in general more unpleasant to be rejected , after long trial , than not ...
... object on many accounts dear to me : and I certainly fhould very far prefer it to far prefer it to any other in the kingdom . My habits are made to it ; and it is in general more unpleasant to be rejected , after long trial , than not ...
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... objects of ordinary ambi- tion . The worthy gentleman , who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election , and in the middle of the conteft , whilft his defires were as warm , and his hopes as eager as ours , has feelingly ...
... objects of ordinary ambi- tion . The worthy gentleman , who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election , and in the middle of the conteft , whilft his defires were as warm , and his hopes as eager as ours , has feelingly ...
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... any power in the nation capable of refiting its unanimous defire , or even the defire of any great or very decided majo- rity of the people . The people may be deceived in their choice of an object , but I can scarcely ( xciii )
... any power in the nation capable of refiting its unanimous defire , or even the defire of any great or very decided majo- rity of the people . The people may be deceived in their choice of an object , but I can scarcely ( xciii )
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Página 47 - Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete.
Página 47 - By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.
Página 16 - 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. Genuine simplicity of heart is an healing and cementing principle.
Página 47 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Página 106 - ... disputants. As we must give away some natural liberty to enjoy civil advantages, so we must sacrifice some civil liberties for the advantages to be derived from the communion and fellowship of a great empire. But, in all fair dealings, the thing bought must bear some proportion to the purchase paid. None will barter away " the immediate jewel of his soul.
Página 59 - For eighteen months without intermission this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore ; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One...
Página 58 - ... and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor...
Página 33 - Britain sits at the head of her extensive empire in two capacities : one as the local legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power. — The other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial character ; in which, as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferior legislatures, and guides and controls them all, without annihilating any.
Página 23 - ... energy, in this new people is no way worn out or impaired; and their mode of professing it is also one main cause of this free spirit. The people are Protestants, and of that kind which is the most adverse to all implicit submission of mind and opinion. This is a persuasion not only favourable to liberty, but built upon it.
Página 25 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.