The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volumen2Henry G. Bohn, 1855 |
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... natural terrors attending it , I should be sorry that anything framed in con- tradiction to the spirit of our constitution did not instantly produce , in fact , the grossest of the evils with which it was pregnant in its nature . It is ...
... natural terrors attending it , I should be sorry that anything framed in con- tradiction to the spirit of our constitution did not instantly produce , in fact , the grossest of the evils with which it was pregnant in its nature . It is ...
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... natural taste and relish of equity and justice . By teaching us to consider our fellow - citizens in a hostile light ... nature . What but that blindness of heart which arises from the phrensy of civil contention , could have made any ...
... natural taste and relish of equity and justice . By teaching us to consider our fellow - citizens in a hostile light ... nature . What but that blindness of heart which arises from the phrensy of civil contention , could have made any ...
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... natural advantages , a virtual equality of contribution will come in its own time , and will flow by an easy descent through its own proper and natural channels . An attempt to disturb that course , and to force nature , will only bring ...
... natural advantages , a virtual equality of contribution will come in its own time , and will flow by an easy descent through its own proper and natural channels . An attempt to disturb that course , and to force nature , will only bring ...
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... natural for us to see our own certain ruin in the possible prosperity of other people . It is hard to persuade us , that everything which is got by another is not ... nature , and that we should E 2 TWO LETTERS TO GENTLEMEN IN BRISTOL . 51.
... natural for us to see our own certain ruin in the possible prosperity of other people . It is hard to persuade us , that everything which is got by another is not ... nature , and that we should E 2 TWO LETTERS TO GENTLEMEN IN BRISTOL . 51.
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... nature has written it strongly in that nature , and has promulgated the same law in his written word , that man shall eat his bread by his labour ; and I am persuaded , that no man , and no combination of men , for their own ideas of ...
... nature has written it strongly in that nature , and has promulgated the same law in his written word , that man shall eat his bread by his labour ; and I am persuaded , that no man , and no combination of men , for their own ideas of ...
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Página 320 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Página 279 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Página 338 - 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 320 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. 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 279 - 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 320 - 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...
Página 321 - 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 497 - Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. — in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption, — in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite...
Página 279 - 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 306 - ... priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science; because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate; but that which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may arise even from th'e ill effects it produces in the beginning. The reverse also happens; and very plausible schemes, with very pleasing commencements, have often shameful and lamentable conclusions.