SelectionsC. Scribner's sons, 1925 - 469 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 57
Page xxxiv
... greater part of the time in the French Revolution . After the evidence and interest had needlessly been sub- jected to six years of cooling off in the House of Lords , the trial resulted in an acquittal ; yet Burke regarded his labors ...
... greater part of the time in the French Revolution . After the evidence and interest had needlessly been sub- jected to six years of cooling off in the House of Lords , the trial resulted in an acquittal ; yet Burke regarded his labors ...
Page xxxv
... greater part of my active life . ” Though Burke lost the case he won the cause . The miseries of India were henceforth alleviated ; the policies of England in colonial government were opportunely corrected ; and the interests of ...
... greater part of my active life . ” Though Burke lost the case he won the cause . The miseries of India were henceforth alleviated ; the policies of England in colonial government were opportunely corrected ; and the interests of ...
Page 5
... greater if he acts upon the offensive , by the impetuosity that always accompanies an attack , and the unfortunate pro- pensity which mankind have to the finding and exagger- ating faults . The editor is satisfied that a mind , which ...
... greater if he acts upon the offensive , by the impetuosity that always accompanies an attack , and the unfortunate pro- pensity which mankind have to the finding and exagger- ating faults . The editor is satisfied that a mind , which ...
Page 15
... greater ; and we behold a war continued with much fury , and with various success . This ends in the retreat of the queen , with scarce a third of the troops employed in the expedition ; an expedition which , at this rate , must have ...
... greater ; and we behold a war continued with much fury , and with various success . This ends in the retreat of the queen , with scarce a third of the troops employed in the expedition ; an expedition which , at this rate , must have ...
Page 24
... greater proportion of rage and fury in their composition than we have . But with respect to you , ye legislators , ye civilizers of mankind ! ye Orpheuses , Moseses , Minoses , Solons , Theseuses , Lycurguses , Numas ! with respect to ...
... greater proportion of rage and fury in their composition than we have . But with respect to you , ye legislators , ye civilizers of mankind ! ye Orpheuses , Moseses , Minoses , Solons , Theseuses , Lycurguses , Numas ! with respect to ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
act of Parliament Adam Bede America ancient appear assembly assignats authority body Burke Burke's called cause character civil colonies conduct consider Constitution court crown dignity Duke of Bedford duty EDMUND BURKE effect empire endeavour England EVAN HARRINGTON evil favour feelings France freedom French Revolution gentlemen give Grace happy honour House of Commons human Hyder Ali ideas imagination interest judge judgment justice king kingdom liberty Lord Lord Keppel Majesty mankind manner means ment merit mind mode moral nation nature never nobility noble object opinion oppression Parliament passions peace perhaps persons pleasure political present principles Professor of English province reason religion revenue Revolution sentiments slavery society sort spirit suffer sure taste taxes things thought tion true truth tyranny U.C. BERKELEY virtue Warren Hastings whilst whole wholly wisdom wish words
Popular passages
Page 144 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. 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 207 - An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America ; for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs* upon the exportation from this kingdom, of coffee and...
Page 342 - 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?
Page 203 - English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English Constitution, which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member.
Page 159 - I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation, in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates. The language in which they would hear you tell them this tale, would detect the imposition ; your speech would betray you. An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery.
Page 268 - Having terminated his disputes with every enemy and every rival, who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the Nabob of 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.
Page 95 - O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Page 316 - second, 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 this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Page 148 - Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing. Liberty might be safe, or might be endangered in twenty other particulars, without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound.
Page 204 - It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.