The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volumen2H. G. Bohn, 1864 |
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... court gazettes mean to impress the people . It is not instantly that I can be brought to rejoice , when I hear of the slaughter and cap- tivity of long lists of those names which have been familiar to my ears from my infancy , and to ...
... court gazettes mean to impress the people . It is not instantly that I can be brought to rejoice , when I hear of the slaughter and cap- tivity of long lists of those names which have been familiar to my ears from my infancy , and to ...
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... court faction here , I tremble to look at them . Has any of these gentlemen , who are so eager to govern all man- kind , showed himself possessed of the first qualification to- wards government , some knowledge of the object , and ...
... court faction here , I tremble to look at them . Has any of these gentlemen , who are so eager to govern all man- kind , showed himself possessed of the first qualification to- wards government , some knowledge of the object , and ...
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... court gazette accomplished what the abettors of independence had attempted in vain . When that disin- genuous compilation , and strange medley of railing and flat- tery , was adduced as a proof of the united sentiments of the people of ...
... court gazette accomplished what the abettors of independence had attempted in vain . When that disin- genuous compilation , and strange medley of railing and flat- tery , was adduced as a proof of the united sentiments of the people of ...
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... court of King Charles the Second to abandon the Dutch war ; a war next to the present the most impolitic which we ever carried on . The good people of England considered Holland as a sort of dependency on this kingdom ; they dreaded to ...
... court of King Charles the Second to abandon the Dutch war ; a war next to the present the most impolitic which we ever carried on . The good people of England considered Holland as a sort of dependency on this kingdom ; they dreaded to ...
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... court measures , he was then earnest in circulating an opinion of the extent of the supposed powers of that commission . When I told them that Lord Howe had no powers to treat , or to promise satis- faction on any point whatsoever of ...
... court measures , he was then earnest in circulating an opinion of the extent of the supposed powers of that commission . When I told them that Lord Howe had no powers to treat , or to promise satis- faction on any point whatsoever of ...
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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.