The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1860 - English literature |
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... become possessed in this country of the same power which their allies in the very next to us have so perfidiously usurped , and so outrageously abused ? Is it inhuman to prevent , if possible , the spilling their blood , or imprudent to ...
... become possessed in this country of the same power which their allies in the very next to us have so perfidiously usurped , and so outrageously abused ? Is it inhuman to prevent , if possible , the spilling their blood , or imprudent to ...
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... become less sensible to a long - possessed benefit , from the very circumstance that it is become habitual . Specious , untried , ambiguous prospects of new advantage recommend themselves to the spirit of adventure , which more or less ...
... become less sensible to a long - possessed benefit , from the very circumstance that it is become habitual . Specious , untried , ambiguous prospects of new advantage recommend themselves to the spirit of adventure , which more or less ...
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... become totally useless ; that under the system of policy which was then pursued , the Americans could have no sort of security for their laws or liberties , or for any part of them ; and , that the very circumstance of our freedom would ...
... become totally useless ; that under the system of policy which was then pursued , the Americans could have no sort of security for their laws or liberties , or for any part of them ; and , that the very circumstance of our freedom would ...
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... become an advocate for an exchange of mischiefs ; no principle of his could compel him to justify the setting up in the place of a mitigated monarchy , a new and far more despotic power , under which there is no trace of liberty ...
... become an advocate for an exchange of mischiefs ; no principle of his could compel him to justify the setting up in the place of a mitigated monarchy , a new and far more despotic power , under which there is no trace of liberty ...
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... become the willing , but still the proud and thoughtless instrument and victim of another domination . Neither did that people despise , or hate , or fear their nobility . On the contrary , they valued themselves on the gene- rous ...
... become the willing , but still the proud and thoughtless instrument and victim of another domination . Neither did that people despise , or hate , or fear their nobility . On the contrary , they valued themselves on the gene- rous ...
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Page 195 - I am alone ; I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my Lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard season I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world.
Page 195 - I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me are gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors.
Page 31 - To be bred in a place of estimation; to see nothing low and sordid from one's infancy; to be taught to respect one's self; to be habituated to the censorial inspection of the public eye; to look early to public opinion; to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the wide-spread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society...
Page 217 - Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two others, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Page 199 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer being here below?
Page 197 - Nothing can be conceived more hard than the heart of a thoroughbred metaphysician. It comes nearer to the cold malignity of a wicked spirit than to the frailty and passion of a man. It is like that of the principle of evil himself, — incorporeal, pure, unmixed, dephlegmated, defecated evil. It is no easy operation to eradicate humanity from the human breast. What Shakespeare calls "the compunctious visitings of nature" will sometimes knock at their hearts, and protest against their murderous speculations.
Page 27 - The constitution of a country being once settled upon some compact, tacit or expressed, there is no power existing of force to alter it, without the breach of the covenant, or the consent of all the parties. Such is the nature of a contract.
Page 96 - If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it ; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear, every hope will forward it...
Page 170 - To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people.
Page 74 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.