The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, Volume 1S. Holdsworth, 1837 - Great Britain |
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... thing at home are suspended by our astonishment at the won- derful spectacle which is exhibited in a neighbouring and rival country . What spectators , and what actors ! England gazing with astonishment at a French struggle for liberty ...
... thing at home are suspended by our astonishment at the won- derful spectacle which is exhibited in a neighbouring and rival country . What spectators , and what actors ! England gazing with astonishment at a French struggle for liberty ...
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... thing ! the thing itself is the abuse ! Observe , my Lord , I pray you , that grand errour upon which all artificial legislative power is founded . It was observed , that men had ungovernable passions , which made it necessary to guard ...
... thing ! the thing itself is the abuse ! Observe , my Lord , I pray you , that grand errour upon which all artificial legislative power is founded . It was observed , that men had ungovernable passions , which made it necessary to guard ...
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... thing more full and satisfactory than the first . I have sought with the utmost care , and read with equal attention , every thing which has appeared in publick against my opinions ; I have taken advantage of the candid liberty of my ...
... thing more full and satisfactory than the first . I have sought with the utmost care , and read with equal attention , every thing which has appeared in publick against my opinions ; I have taken advantage of the candid liberty of my ...
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... thing makes a different appearance . I never re- member that any thing beautiful , whether a man , a beast , a bird , or a plant , was ever shewn , though it were to an hundred people , that they did not all immediately agree that it ...
... thing makes a different appearance . I never re- member that any thing beautiful , whether a man , a beast , a bird , or a plant , was ever shewn , though it were to an hundred people , that they did not all immediately agree that it ...
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... things , that it is still like the palate of other men in many things , and only vitiated in some par- ticular points . For in judging of any new thing , even of a taste similar to that which he has been formed by habit to like , he ...
... things , that it is still like the palate of other men in many things , and only vitiated in some par- ticular points . For in judging of any new thing , even of a taste similar to that which he has been formed by habit to like , he ...
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Page 186 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page lxvi - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
Page 332 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a...
Page liv - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences ; we give and take ; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others; and, we chuse rather to be happy citizens, than subtle disputants.
Page 40 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes, There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page lxv - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, King's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure...
Page 186 - We know, that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Page 187 - ... them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, sir, to commend the superior morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it, but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so, and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with an higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward.
Page 203 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have ; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience.
Page 185 - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.