The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volumen3Wells and Lilly, 1826 |
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Edmund Burke. Europe . All circumstances taken together , the French re- volution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world . The most wonderful things are brought about in many instances by means the most absurd ...
Edmund Burke. Europe . All circumstances taken together , the French re- volution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world . The most wonderful things are brought about in many instances by means the most absurd ...
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... French revolution , so much before their eyes , and in their hearts , that they are constantly confounding all the three together . It is necessary that we should separate what they confound . We must recall their erring fancies to the ...
... French revolution , so much before their eyes , and in their hearts , that they are constantly confounding all the three together . It is necessary that we should separate what they confound . We must recall their erring fancies to the ...
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... French friend , should begin to know , and that we should continue to cherish them . We ought not , on either side of the water , to suffer ourselves to be imposed upon by the counterfeit wares which some persons , by a double fraud ...
... French friend , should begin to know , and that we should continue to cherish them . We ought not , on either side of the water , to suffer ourselves to be imposed upon by the counterfeit wares which some persons , by a double fraud ...
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... French as a people of yesterday , as a nation of low - born servile wretches until the emancipating year of 1789. In order to furnish , at the expense of your honour , an excuse to your apologists here for several enormities of yours ...
... French as a people of yesterday , as a nation of low - born servile wretches until the emancipating year of 1789. In order to furnish , at the expense of your honour , an excuse to your apologists here for several enormities of yours ...
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... French rebel against a mild and lawful monarch , with more fury , outrage , and insult , than ever any people has been known to rise against the most illegal usurper , or the most sanguinary tyrant . Their resistance was made to conces ...
... French rebel against a mild and lawful monarch , with more fury , outrage , and insult , than ever any people has been known to rise against the most illegal usurper , or the most sanguinary tyrant . Their resistance was made to conces ...
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Página 94 - 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 51 - 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 50 - You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Página 95 - 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 96 - 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 64 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind.
Página 51 - 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.
Página 67 - 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 95 - 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 grossnesa.
Página 84 - I have lived to it, and I could almost say, " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition and error — I have lived to see the rights of men better understood than ever, and nations panting for liberty which seemed to have lost the idea of it ; I have lived to see thirty millions of people, indignant and resolute, spurning at slavery, and demanding liberty with an irresistible...