Burke, Select Works, Volumen3Clarendon Press, 1898 - 712 páginas |
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... Sermon of Dr. Price , p . 12. It misrepresents the English Constitution , p . 15. The Right to choose our own governors ' disclaimed and refuted as a practical doctrine , p . 18. The Right ' to cashier them for misconduct ' disclaimed ...
... Sermon of Dr. Price , p . 12. It misrepresents the English Constitution , p . 15. The Right to choose our own governors ' disclaimed and refuted as a practical doctrine , p . 18. The Right ' to cashier them for misconduct ' disclaimed ...
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... Sermon Dr. Price , p . 75. Price compared with Peters , p . 77. The treat- ment of the King and Royal Family of France , p . 79 , contrasted with the spirit of old European manners and opinions , which being natural and politic , still ...
... Sermon Dr. Price , p . 75. Price compared with Peters , p . 77. The treat- ment of the King and Royal Family of France , p . 79 , contrasted with the spirit of old European manners and opinions , which being natural and politic , still ...
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... sermon in one of their churches ; and that after- wards they spent the day cheerfully , as other clubs do , at the tavern . But I never heard that any public measure , or political system , much less that the merits of the constitu ...
... sermon in one of their churches ; and that after- wards they spent the day cheerfully , as other clubs do , at the tavern . But I never heard that any public measure , or political system , much less that the merits of the constitu ...
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... sermon of Dr. Price , with the Duke de Rochefoucault's and the Archbishop of Aix's letter , and several other documents annexed . The whole of that publication , with the manifest design of connecting the affairs of France with those of ...
... sermon of Dr. Price , with the Duke de Rochefoucault's and the Archbishop of Aix's letter , and several other documents annexed . The whole of that publication , with the manifest design of connecting the affairs of France with those of ...
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... sermon , and as a corollary from them . It was moved by the preacher of that discourse . It was passed by those who came reeking from the effect of the sermon , without any censure or qualifi- cation , expressed or implied . If ...
... sermon , and as a corollary from them . It was moved by the preacher of that discourse . It was passed by those who came reeking from the effect of the sermon , without any censure or qualifi- cation , expressed or implied . If ...
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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.