The Works of Edmund Burke, Volumen3C. C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 |
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... direct tendency of their doctrines , then equivocations and slippery constructions come into play . When they say the king owes his crown to the choice of his people , and is therefore the only lawful sovereign in the world , they will ...
... direct tendency of their doctrines , then equivocations and slippery constructions come into play . When they say the king owes his crown to the choice of his people , and is therefore the only lawful sovereign in the world , they will ...
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... direct line of hereditary succession . The crown was carried somewhat out of the line in which it had before moved ; but the new line was derived from the same stock . It was still a line of hereditary descent ; still an hereditary ...
... direct line of hereditary succession . The crown was carried somewhat out of the line in which it had before moved ; but the new line was derived from the same stock . It was still a line of hereditary descent ; still an hereditary ...
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... direct opposition to one of the wisest and most beautiful parts of our constitution , that " a king is no more than the first ser- vant of the public , created by it , and responsible to it . " Ill would our ancestors at the revolution ...
... direct opposition to one of the wisest and most beautiful parts of our constitution , that " a king is no more than the first ser- vant of the public , created by it , and responsible to it . " Ill would our ancestors at the revolution ...
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... direct or indirect , is indeed great ; and long may it be able to preserve its greatness , and the spirit belonging to true greatness , at the full ; and it will do so , as long as it can . keep the breakers of law in India from ...
... direct or indirect , is indeed great ; and long may it be able to preserve its greatness , and the spirit belonging to true greatness , at the full ; and it will do so , as long as it can . keep the breakers of law in India from ...
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... direct , or indirect , to select the man with a view to the duty , or to accommodate the one to the other . I do not hesitate to say , that the road to eminence and the goad ; that driveth oxen ; and is occupied in their labors ; and ...
... direct , or indirect , to select the man with a view to the duty , or to accommodate the one to the other . I do not hesitate to say , that the road to eminence and the goad ; that driveth oxen ; and is occupied in their labors ; and ...
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Página 120 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. 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 98 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Página 195 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Página 81 - Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
Página 99 - On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom, as it is destitute of all taste and elegance, 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 visto, you see nothing but the gallows.
Página 99 - All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded, as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.
Página 120 - Subordinate contracts for (jectsot mere xiflUaSlBHSHntewBt may be dissolved at pleasure — but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Página 119 - ... we have consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution ; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
Página 110 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
Página 98 - Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom...