The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His WorksN.H. Whitaker, 1828 - 160 páginas |
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... revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall ! Little did I dream , when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic , distant , respectful love , that she should ever ...
... revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall ! Little did I dream , when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic , distant , respectful love , that she should ever ...
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... revolution so- ciety chooses to assert , in direct opposition to one of the wisest and most beautiful parts of our constitution , that " a king is no more than the first servant of the public , created by it , and responsible to it ...
... revolution so- ciety chooses to assert , in direct opposition to one of the wisest and most beautiful parts of our constitution , that " a king is no more than the first servant of the public , created by it , and responsible to it ...
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... revolution . The direct power of the king of England is considerable . His in- direct , and far more certain power , is great indeed . He stands in need of nothing to- wards dignity ; of nothing towards splen- dour ; of nothing towards ...
... revolution . The direct power of the king of England is considerable . His in- direct , and far more certain power , is great indeed . He stands in need of nothing to- wards dignity ; of nothing towards splen- dour ; of nothing towards ...
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... revolution was completed . How much of that prosperous state was owing to the spir- it of our old manners and opinions is not easy to say ; but , as such causes cannot be indifferent in their operation , we must pre- sume that , on the ...
... revolution was completed . How much of that prosperous state was owing to the spir- it of our old manners and opinions is not easy to say ; but , as such causes cannot be indifferent in their operation , we must pre- sume that , on the ...
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... revolution was attempted in a more regular mode by government , it was opposed by plots and seditions of the people ; when by popular efforts , it was repressed as rebel- lion by the hand of power ; and bloody ex . ecutions ( often ...
... revolution was attempted in a more regular mode by government , it was opposed by plots and seditions of the people ; when by popular efforts , it was repressed as rebel- lion by the hand of power ; and bloody ex . ecutions ( often ...
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Página 46 - 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 87 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Página 137 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should be frequently thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Página 92 - ... and paid it with usury, by enlarging their ideas, and by furnishing their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Página 90 - ... laws are to be supported only by their own terrors, and by the concern which each individual may find in them, from his own private speculations, or can spare to them from his own private interests. In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
Página 112 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest, upon some particular principle, in which they are all agreed.
Página 7 - Suppose, Sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing the many virtues which made him one of the most amiable, as he is one of the most fortunate, men of his age, had opened to him in vision, that when in the fourth generation the third prince of the House of Brunswick had sat twelve years on the throne...
Página 90 - Nothing is left which engages the affections on the part of the commonwealth. On the principles of this mechanic philosophy, our institutions can never he imbodied, if I may use the expression, in persons, so as to create in us love, veneration, admiration, or attachment. But that sort of reason which banishes the affections is incapable of filling their place.
Página 90 - These public affections, combined with manners, are required sometimes as supplements, sometimes as correctives, always as aids to law. The precept given by a wise man, as well as a great critic, for the construction of...
Página 80 - Political arrangement, as it is a work for social ends, is to be only wrought by social means. There mind must conspire with mind. Time is required to produce that union of minds which alone can produce all the good we aim at. Our patience will achieve more than our force.