The Works of Edmund Burke, Volumen3C. C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 |
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... kind our natural inclinations are flattered . In the case of despotism there is the fœdum crimen servitutis ; in the last the falsa species libertatis ; and accordingly , as the historian says , pronis auribus accipitur . In the last ...
... kind our natural inclinations are flattered . In the case of despotism there is the fœdum crimen servitutis ; in the last the falsa species libertatis ; and accordingly , as the historian says , pronis auribus accipitur . In the last ...
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... kind and flattering things , which Mr. Burke , I take it for granted , will know himself too well to think he merits , from any thing but Mr. Fox's acknowledged good nature . Mr. Fox thought , how- ever , that , in many cases , Mr ...
... kind and flattering things , which Mr. Burke , I take it for granted , will know himself too well to think he merits , from any thing but Mr. Fox's acknowledged good nature . Mr. Fox thought , how- ever , that , in many cases , Mr ...
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... kind of privileged persons ; as no in- considerable members in the diplomatic body . This is one among the revolutions which have given splendor to obscurity , and distinction to undiscerned merit . Until very lately I do not recollect ...
... kind of privileged persons ; as no in- considerable members in the diplomatic body . This is one among the revolutions which have given splendor to obscurity , and distinction to undiscerned merit . Until very lately I do not recollect ...
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... kind of succession which is to preclude a choice of the people for ever , could the legislature have fastidiously rejected the fair and abundant choice which our own country presented to them , and searched in strange lands for a ...
... kind of succession which is to preclude a choice of the people for ever , could the legislature have fastidiously rejected the fair and abundant choice which our own country presented to them , and searched in strange lands for a ...
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... kind of address , to adopt it in terms , and even to take the appellation of Servant of the People as his royal style , how either he or we should be much mended by it , I cannot imagine . I have seen very assuming letters , signed ...
... kind of address , to adopt it in terms , and even to take the appellation of Servant of the People as his royal style , how either he or we should be much mended by it , I cannot imagine . I have seen very assuming letters , signed ...
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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...