The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volumen3Little, Brown,, 1877 |
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... direct proof is very difficult , ) debts have at several periods been acknowl- edged to those gentlemen , to an immense amount , — that is , to some millions of sterling money . There is H H strong reason to suspect that the body of ...
... direct proof is very difficult , ) debts have at several periods been acknowl- edged to those gentlemen , to an immense amount , — that is , to some millions of sterling money . There is H H strong reason to suspect that the body of ...
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... direct tax upon every house in England , in order to facilitate the vent of their goods , and to avoid instant insol- vency , - at that very moment , that their servants should appear in so flourishing a condition , as , be- sides ten ...
... direct tax upon every house in England , in order to facilitate the vent of their goods , and to avoid instant insol- vency , - at that very moment , that their servants should appear in so flourishing a condition , as , be- sides ten ...
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... direct such an inquiry to be instituted . " They then order the President and Council of Madras to enter into a full examination , & c . , & c . The Directors , having drawn up their order to the Presidency on these principles ...
... direct such an inquiry to be instituted . " They then order the President and Council of Madras to enter into a full examination , & c . , & c . The Directors , having drawn up their order to the Presidency on these principles ...
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... direct opposition to the necessities of the nation . A diversion is made of millions of the public money from the public treasury to a private purse . It is not into secret negotiations for war , peace , or alliance that the House of ...
... direct opposition to the necessities of the nation . A diversion is made of millions of the public money from the public treasury to a private purse . It is not into secret negotiations for war , peace , or alliance that the House of ...
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... direct that you do examine , in the most impartial manner , all the above- mentioned transactions , and that you punish , by sus- pension , degradation , dismission , or otherwise , as to you shall seem meet , all and every such servant ...
... direct that you do examine , in the most impartial manner , all the above- mentioned transactions , and that you punish , by sus- pension , degradation , dismission , or otherwise , as to you shall seem meet , all and every such servant ...
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Página 359 - Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure ; but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Página 63 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, — fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and, amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, — were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile...
Página 296 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Página 64 - For eighteen months without intermission this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore ; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One...
Página 245 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Página 252 - Parliament was made intituled an Act for declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and for settling the succession of the crown...
Página 347 - Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders' a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
Página 274 - 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 63 - ... barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together was no protection. He became at length so confident of his force, so collected in his might, that he made no secret whatsoever of his dreadful resolution. Having terminated his disputes with every enemy, and every rival, who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the nabob of Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add...
Página 355 - ... individual in public acts, is small indeed; the operation of opinion being in the inverse ratio to the number of those who abuse power. Their own approbation of their own acts has to them the appearance of a public judgment in their favour. A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. As it is the most shameless, it is also the most fearless.