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... enlarged views - in all his policy he was strictly practical ; and in his practice he always regarded , with holy reverence , the institu- tions and manners derived from our ances- tors . It EULOGY ON MR . BURKE . xvii.
... enlarged views - in all his policy he was strictly practical ; and in his practice he always regarded , with holy reverence , the institu- tions and manners derived from our ances- tors . It EULOGY ON MR . BURKE . xvii.
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Edmund Burke. tions and manners derived from our ances- tors . It seemed as if he had been en- dowed with such transcendant powers , and informed with such extensive knowledge , only to bear the more striking testimony , in these days of ...
Edmund Burke. tions and manners derived from our ances- tors . It seemed as if he had been en- dowed with such transcendant powers , and informed with such extensive knowledge , only to bear the more striking testimony , in these days of ...
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... manner in which it is to be exercised , but concerning the hands in which it is to be placed . Somewhere they are re- solved to have it . Whether they desire it to be vested in the many or the few , depends with 8 FESTIVE ANNIVERSARIES ...
... manner in which it is to be exercised , but concerning the hands in which it is to be placed . Somewhere they are re- solved to have it . Whether they desire it to be vested in the many or the few , depends with 8 FESTIVE ANNIVERSARIES ...
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... manners . No candidate for parliamentary influence is obliged to the least attention towards them , either in cities or counties . On the contrary , if they should become obnoxious to any bigoted or malignant peo- ple amongst whom they ...
... manners . No candidate for parliamentary influence is obliged to the least attention towards them , either in cities or counties . On the contrary , if they should become obnoxious to any bigoted or malignant peo- ple amongst whom they ...
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... manner , mode , time , choice of objects , and proportion , are left to private discre- tion ; and , perhaps , for that very reason it is per- formed with the greater satisfaction , because the discharge of it has more the appearance of ...
... manner , mode , time , choice of objects , and proportion , are left to private discre- tion ; and , perhaps , for that very reason it is per- formed with the greater satisfaction , because the discharge of it has more the appearance of ...
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Página 183 - 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 146 - 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 184 - 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 146 - 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. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission ; without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
Página 145 - You will observe, that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Página 132 - A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Página 26 - But one of the first and most leading principles on which the commonwealth and the laws are consecrated, is lest the temporary possessors and life-renters in it, unmindful of what they have received from their ancestors, or of what is due to their posterity, should act as if they were the entire masters...
Página 24 - All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust ; and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.
Página 55 - My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force ; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource : for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left.
Página 47 - Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire, and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown. In large bodies, the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities.