The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volumen2H. G. Bohn, 1864 |
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... natural terrors attending it , I should be sorry that anything framed in con- tradiction to the spirit of our constitution did not instantly produce , in fact , the grossest of the evils with which it was pregnant in its nature . It is ...
... natural terrors attending it , I should be sorry that anything framed in con- tradiction to the spirit of our constitution did not instantly produce , in fact , the grossest of the evils with which it was pregnant in its nature . It is ...
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... natural taste and relish of equity and justice . By teaching us to consider our fellow - citizens in a hostile light ... nature . What but that blindness of heart which arises from the phrensy of civil contention , could have made any ...
... natural taste and relish of equity and justice . By teaching us to consider our fellow - citizens in a hostile light ... nature . What but that blindness of heart which arises from the phrensy of civil contention , could have made any ...
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... natural that they should attribute to assemblies , so respectable in their formal constitution , some part of the ... nature , may complain of all this variation , on the one side or the other , as their several humours and prejudices ...
... natural that they should attribute to assemblies , so respectable in their formal constitution , some part of the ... nature , may complain of all this variation , on the one side or the other , as their several humours and prejudices ...
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... nature of man , and the circumstances and habits of the two countries , and not on any visionary speculations , perfectly answered its end , as long as it was thought proper to adhere to it . Without giving a rude shock to the dignity ...
... nature of man , and the circumstances and habits of the two countries , and not on any visionary speculations , perfectly answered its end , as long as it was thought proper to adhere to it . Without giving a rude shock to the dignity ...
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... a war . I am per- suaded from the nature of things , and from information , that it would have had a directly contrary effect . But if it every had this effect , I confess that I should prefer D 2 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 35.
... a war . I am per- suaded from the nature of things , and from information , that it would have had a directly contrary effect . But if it every had this effect , I confess that I should prefer D 2 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 35.
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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.