The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volumen2H. G. Bohn, 1864 |
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... House of Lords ) as my voucher for many of these reflections.1 For what plausible reason are these principalities ... Lord Vernon , respondent , in the year 1776 . political end which cannot be answered otherwise . Sub- divisions 74 ...
... House of Lords ) as my voucher for many of these reflections.1 For what plausible reason are these principalities ... Lord Vernon , respondent , in the year 1776 . political end which cannot be answered otherwise . Sub- divisions 74 ...
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... lord , therefore , made several attempts towards a reform . In the year 1777 , when the king's civil list debts came last to be paid , he explained very fully the success of his undertaking . He told the House of Lords , that he had ...
... lord , therefore , made several attempts towards a reform . In the year 1777 , when the king's civil list debts came last to be paid , he explained very fully the success of his undertaking . He told the House of Lords , that he had ...
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Edmund Burke. duty , and defrauding our employers , who are our natural lords ... House , if they choose to appoint me to any part in the execution of this ... house officers , brought into parliament several years ago , by one of our ...
Edmund Burke. duty , and defrauding our employers , who are our natural lords ... House , if they choose to appoint me to any part in the execution of this ... house officers , brought into parliament several years ago , by one of our ...
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... House of Lords . It is something more than a century since we voted that body useless : they have now voted themselves so . The whole hope of reformation is at length cast upon us : and let us not deceive the nation , which does us the ...
... House of Lords . It is something more than a century since we voted that body useless : they have now voted themselves so . The whole hope of reformation is at length cast upon us : and let us not deceive the nation , which does us the ...
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... Lord Carlisle is among the first ranks of our nobility . He is the identical man who , but two years before , had been put forward , at the opening of the session in the House of Lords , as the mover of a haughty and rigorous address ...
... Lord Carlisle is among the first ranks of our nobility . He is the identical man who , but two years before , had been put forward , at the opening of the session in the House of Lords , as the mover of a haughty and rigorous address ...
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Página 303 - 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.
Página 364 - It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Página 433 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Página 319 - 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 551 - Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Página 297 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Página 423 - It is with the greatest difficulty that I am able to separate policy from justice. Justice itself is the great standing policy of civil society ; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Página 164 - I have not lived in vain. And now, Gentlemen, on this serious day, when I come, as it were, to make up my account with you, let me take to myself some degree of honest pride on the nature of the charges that are against me.
Página 406 - Omnes boni nobilitati semper favemus, was the saying of a wise and good man. It is, indeed, one sign of a liberal and benevolent mind to incline to it with some sort of partial propensity. He feels no ennobling principle in his own heart who wishes to level all the artificial institutions which have been adopted for giving a body to opinion and permanence to fugitive esteem.