Burke, Select Works, Volumen3Clarendon Press, 1898 - 712 páginas |
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Página v
... true and wise sayings are mixed up with extravagant and barefaced sophistry : its argument , with every semblance of legal exact- ness , is disturbed by hasty gusts of anger , and broken by chasmns which yawn in the face of the least ...
... true and wise sayings are mixed up with extravagant and barefaced sophistry : its argument , with every semblance of legal exact- ness , is disturbed by hasty gusts of anger , and broken by chasmns which yawn in the face of the least ...
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... true . The body of the nation agreed in this fierce and eloquent denunciation . The Jacobins steadily went down in public estimation from the day of its publication . Burke's fiery philippic seemed to dry up their strength , as the sun ...
... true . The body of the nation agreed in this fierce and eloquent denunciation . The Jacobins steadily went down in public estimation from the day of its publication . Burke's fiery philippic seemed to dry up their strength , as the sun ...
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... true friend to them all who supports the part attacked , ' with all the power of stating , of argument , and of colouring , which he happens to possess , and which the case de- mands . He is not to embarrass the minds of his hearers ...
... true friend to them all who supports the part attacked , ' with all the power of stating , of argument , and of colouring , which he happens to possess , and which the case de- mands . He is not to embarrass the minds of his hearers ...
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... true , justice at the hands of the ' sworn guardians of property ' was a doubtful commodity , and few will now deny that the Assembly were justified in making a clean sweep of it ( see p . 144 ) • As to the common law which they ...
... true , justice at the hands of the ' sworn guardians of property ' was a doubtful commodity , and few will now deny that the Assembly were justified in making a clean sweep of it ( see p . 144 ) • As to the common law which they ...
Página xxiv
... true bounds of all principles , to discern how far forth they take effect , to see where and why they fail , to apprehend by what degrees and means they lead to the practice of things in shew , though not indeed repugnant and contrary ...
... true bounds of all principles , to discern how far forth they take effect , to see where and why they fail , to apprehend by what degrees and means they lead to the practice of things in shew , though not indeed repugnant and contrary ...
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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.