The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Illustrated in a Series of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches; with a Summary of His LifeE. Moxon, 1845 - 426 páginas |
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... situation of one of the secre- taries of the treasury in 1782 , and again in 1783 , he was , in the December of the latter year , elected Recorder of Bristol , an office he held until his death , the 4th February , 1794. It is to this ...
... situation of one of the secre- taries of the treasury in 1782 , and again in 1783 , he was , in the December of the latter year , elected Recorder of Bristol , an office he held until his death , the 4th February , 1794. It is to this ...
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... situation in which men , irritated by oppression , and elevated by a triumph over it , are apt to abandon themselves to violent and extreme courses : it shows the anxiety of the great men who influenced the conduct of affairs at that ...
... situation in which men , irritated by oppression , and elevated by a triumph over it , are apt to abandon themselves to violent and extreme courses : it shows the anxiety of the great men who influenced the conduct of affairs at that ...
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... situation , their duty , and their obligations . The slave , in the old play , tells his master , " Hæc commemoratio est quasi exprobatio . " It is not plea- sant as compliment ; it is not wholesome as instruc- tion . After all , if the ...
... situation , their duty , and their obligations . The slave , in the old play , tells his master , " Hæc commemoratio est quasi exprobatio . " It is not plea- sant as compliment ; it is not wholesome as instruc- tion . After all , if the ...
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... situation is to obey the commands of some other , and to be removable at pleasure . But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person ; all other persons are individually , and collectively too , under him , and owe to him a legal ...
... situation is to obey the commands of some other , and to be removable at pleasure . But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person ; all other persons are individually , and collectively too , under him , and owe to him a legal ...
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... situations which confer the lead and direction of all our public affairs ; because such a man has no connexion with the interest of the people . Those knots or cabals of men who have got toge- ther avowedly without any public principle ...
... situations which confer the lead and direction of all our public affairs ; because such a man has no connexion with the interest of the people . Those knots or cabals of men who have got toge- ther avowedly without any public principle ...
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Página 149 - I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy...
Página 17 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Página 48 - But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment; which he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Página 355 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Página 47 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Página 411 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Página 410 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Página 11 - A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Página 351 - When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Página 80 - Sir, I think you must perceive that I am resolved this day to have nothing at all to do with the question of the right of taxation. Some gentlemen startle, but it is true. I put it totally out of the question. It is less than nothing in my consideration.