The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volumen2H. G. Bohn, 1864 |
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... observe , that it is not only the invidious branch of taxation that will be resisted , but that no other given part of legislative rights can be exercised , without regard to the general opinion of those who are to be governed . That ...
... observe , that it is not only the invidious branch of taxation that will be resisted , but that no other given part of legislative rights can be exercised , without regard to the general opinion of those who are to be governed . That ...
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... observe the kind of reasoning with which the public has been amused , in order to divert our minds from the common sense of our American policy . There are people , who have split and anatomised the doctrine of free government , as if ...
... observe the kind of reasoning with which the public has been amused , in order to divert our minds from the common sense of our American policy . There are people , who have split and anatomised the doctrine of free government , as if ...
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... observe , and observe with pleasure , that our affairs rather wear a more promising aspect than they did on the opening of this session . We have had some leading successes . But those who rate them at the highest ( higher a great deal ...
... observe , and observe with pleasure , that our affairs rather wear a more promising aspect than they did on the opening of this session . We have had some leading successes . But those who rate them at the highest ( higher a great deal ...
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... observe , Sir , that whoever takes a view of this kingdom in a cursory manner will imagine , that he beholds a solid , com- pacted , uniform system of monarchy ; in which all inferior jurisdictions are but as rays diverging from one ...
... observe , Sir , that whoever takes a view of this kingdom in a cursory manner will imagine , that he beholds a solid , com- pacted , uniform system of monarchy ; in which all inferior jurisdictions are but as rays diverging from one ...
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... observe who they were that composed this famous embassy ! My 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 ...
... observe who they were that composed this famous embassy ! My 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 ...
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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.