Burke, Select Works, Volumen3Clarendon Press, 1898 - 712 páginas |
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Página vii
... never be a politician , though he may be a hero and a martyr . Abstract truths , when embodied in the form of popular opinion , sometimes prove to be moral falsehoods . And popular opinion in the majority of cases proves to be a ...
... never be a politician , though he may be a hero and a martyr . Abstract truths , when embodied in the form of popular opinion , sometimes prove to be moral falsehoods . And popular opinion in the majority of cases proves to be a ...
Página xvi
... never lack exponents . ancient tale , and in a certain sense , a tale of wrong ; but whilst the human species maintains its vantage above the lower animals , it is a wrong that will never be completely righted . In Burke's view , it is ...
... never lack exponents . ancient tale , and in a certain sense , a tale of wrong ; but whilst the human species maintains its vantage above the lower animals , it is a wrong that will never be completely righted . In Burke's view , it is ...
Página xx
... never shaken . He had lived on terms of intimacy with , and was bound by ties of mutual obligation to some of the worthiest members of the British aristocracy . It is mainly to them personally that his panegyric is applicable . Nobility ...
... never shaken . He had lived on terms of intimacy with , and was bound by ties of mutual obligation to some of the worthiest members of the British aristocracy . It is mainly to them personally that his panegyric is applicable . Nobility ...
Página xxii
... never be got to work at all , was criminal madness . The strictures of Burke with reference to this great and central point in his political philosophy are only partially applicable to the French Reformers of his day ; nor are they at ...
... never be got to work at all , was criminal madness . The strictures of Burke with reference to this great and central point in his political philosophy are only partially applicable to the French Reformers of his day ; nor are they at ...
Página xxiii
... never penetrated the mass of English contemporary thinkers . Milton , in his proposed or ganisation of the republic , followed Italian , not English ideas : and the honour due to Milton will not prevent our recognising the beauty and ...
... never penetrated the mass of English contemporary thinkers . Milton , in his proposed or ganisation of the republic , followed Italian , not English ideas : and the honour due to Milton will not prevent our recognising the beauty and ...
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Página xxiii - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Página 25 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Página xxiv - The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows...
Página 83 - 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 33 - Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve, we are never wholly new; in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete.
Página 65 - ... the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection. This can only be done by a power out of themselves, and not, in the exercise of its function, subject to that will and to those passions which it is its office to bridle and subdue. In this sense the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.
Página 33 - 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 82 - 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.
Página 83 - ... 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 109 - ... into the antagonist world of madness, discord, vice, confusion, and unavailing sorrow.