The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volumen2H. G. Bohn, 1864 |
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... reason of America , ( to use the expressive phrase of a great lord in office , ) it is not the judicial slaughter , which is made in another hemisphere against their universal sense of justice , that will ever reconcile them to the ...
... reason of America , ( to use the expressive phrase of a great lord in office , ) it is not the judicial slaughter , which is made in another hemisphere against their universal sense of justice , that will ever reconcile them to the ...
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... reason and equity , and the general sense of mankind . These they are bound to obey and follow ; and rather to enlarge and en- lighten law by the liberality of legislative reason , than to fetter and bind their higher capacity by the ...
... reason and equity , and the general sense of mankind . These they are bound to obey and follow ; and rather to enlarge and en- lighten law by the liberality of legislative reason , than to fetter and bind their higher capacity by the ...
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... reason were enlightened in proportion as our honest prejudices are removed . Wanting feelings for the honour of our country , we might then in cold blood be brought to think a little of our interests as individual citizens , and our ...
... reason were enlightened in proportion as our honest prejudices are removed . Wanting feelings for the honour of our country , we might then in cold blood be brought to think a little of our interests as individual citizens , and our ...
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... reasons I do not choose to expose to public view all the par- ticulars of the state in which you stood with regard to ... reason which their stock can furnish , why should we think it proper to disturb its operation by inflaming their ...
... reasons I do not choose to expose to public view all the par- ticulars of the state in which you stood with regard to ... reason which their stock can furnish , why should we think it proper to disturb its operation by inflaming their ...
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... reason what- ever be given , why one people should voluntarily yield any degree of pre - eminence to another , but on a supposition of great affection and benevolence towards them . Unfortun- ately your rulers , trusting to other things ...
... reason what- ever be given , why one people should voluntarily yield any degree of pre - eminence to another , but on a supposition of great affection and benevolence towards them . Unfortun- ately your rulers , trusting to other things ...
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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.