Selections from Edmund BurkeH. Holt, 1896 - 298 páginas "Edmund Burke PC (12 January [NS] 1729[1]? 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution. The latter led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig party, which he dubbed the "Old Whigs", in opposition to the pro?French Revolution "New Whigs", led by Charles James Fox. Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals in the 19th century. Since the 20th century, he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism, as well as a representative of classical liberalism."--Wikipedia |
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... interest . The brilliant Letter to a Noble Lord , written in the last year but one of Burke's life , is an Apologia for his whole career , and furnishes a fitting close to these selections . A brief treatment of the main political ...
... interest . The brilliant Letter to a Noble Lord , written in the last year but one of Burke's life , is an Apologia for his whole career , and furnishes a fitting close to these selections . A brief treatment of the main political ...
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... interests you , stimulates you , and does you good . " - Matthew Arnold's Letters , I. 249 . I. N. READERS of J. R. Green's Short History of the Eng- lish People know his skill in seizing upon the contra- dictory elements in some ...
... interests you , stimulates you , and does you good . " - Matthew Arnold's Letters , I. 249 . I. N. READERS of J. R. Green's Short History of the Eng- lish People know his skill in seizing upon the contra- dictory elements in some ...
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... interest hid in the secret of our hearts , the inveterate prejudice molded into the constitution of our frame , even the sacred fleece itself , all went together . " To transform plain West of England wool , by a series of deft and ...
... interest hid in the secret of our hearts , the inveterate prejudice molded into the constitution of our frame , even the sacred fleece itself , all went together . " To transform plain West of England wool , by a series of deft and ...
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... interest , subsisting among them ; it is evi- dently impossible that they can act a public part with uniformity ... interests of his country . This innoxious and ineffect- ual character , that seems formed upon a plan of apology and ...
... interest , subsisting among them ; it is evi- dently impossible that they can act a public part with uniformity ... interests of his country . This innoxious and ineffect- ual character , that seems formed upon a plan of apology and ...
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... interest . But , where duty renders a critical situation a necessary one , it is our business to keep free from the evils attendant upon it ; and not to fly from the situation itself . If a fortress is seated in an unwhole- some air ...
... interest . But , where duty renders a critical situation a necessary one , it is our business to keep free from the evils attendant upon it ; and not to fly from the situation itself . If a fortress is seated in an unwhole- some air ...
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Página 161 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Página 176 - 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 161 - This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry; and the principle, though varied in its appearance by the varying state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced through a long succession of generations, even to the time we live in. If it should ever be totally extinguished, the loss I fear will be great. It is this which has given its character to modern Europe. It is this which has distinguished it under all its forms of government...
Página 33 - 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. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Página 176 - ... little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence ; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.
Página 176 - Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest 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 176 - Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed place.
Página 32 - These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the Constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Página 160 - 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. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Página 162 - 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.