The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volumen5C. and J. Rivington, 1815 |
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... kind our natural inclinations are flat- tered . In the case of despotism there is the fadum crimen servitutis ; in the last the falsa species liber- tatis ; and accordingly , as the historian says , pronis auribus accipitur . In the ...
... kind our natural inclinations are flat- tered . In the case of despotism there is the fadum crimen servitutis ; in the last the falsa species liber- tatis ; and accordingly , as the historian says , pronis auribus accipitur . In the ...
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... kind ; which seems in France , for a long time , to have been embodied into a faction , accredited , and almost avowed . These are our present dangers from France : but , in his opinion , the very worst part of the example set is , in ...
... kind ; which seems in France , for a long time , to have been embodied into a faction , accredited , and almost avowed . These are our present dangers from France : but , in his opinion , the very worst part of the example set is , in ...
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... kind and flattering things , which Mr. Burke , I take it for granted , will know himself too well to think he merits , from any thing but Mr. Fox's acknowledged good - nature . Mr. Fox thought , however , that , in many cases , Mr ...
... kind and flattering things , which Mr. Burke , I take it for granted , will know himself too well to think he merits , from any thing but Mr. Fox's acknowledged good - nature . Mr. Fox thought , however , that , in many cases , Mr ...
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... kind of privileged persons ; as no in- considerable members in the diplomatick body . This is one among the revolutions which have given splendour to obscurity , and distinction to undiscerned merit . Until very lately I do not re ...
... kind of privileged persons ; as no in- considerable members in the diplomatick body . This is one among the revolutions which have given splendour to obscurity , and distinction to undiscerned merit . Until very lately I do not re ...
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... both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance . On what ground , except the consti- tutional policy of forming an establishment to se- cure cure that kind of succession which is to preclude a 62 REFLECTIONS ON THE.
... both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance . On what ground , except the consti- tutional policy of forming an establishment to se- cure cure that kind of succession which is to preclude a 62 REFLECTIONS ON THE.
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Página 147 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 148 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Página 147 - Little did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream...
Página 296 - 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 149 - All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off.
Página 216 - But to be restless in a worse extreme? And for that lethargy was there no cure, But to be cast into a calenture; Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far, to make us wish for ignorance?
Página 121 - Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
Página 77 - By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.
Página 216 - Of sacrilege, must bear Devotion's name. No crime so bold but would be understood A real, or at least, a seeming good. Who fears not to do ill, yet fears the name, And, free from conscience, is a slave to fame. Thus he the church at once protects and spoils ; But princes' swords are sharper than their styles : And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends.
Página 78 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable, and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.