The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1860 - English literature |
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... never vary , without subjecting him to the just indignation of mankind , who are Dound , and are generally disposed , to look up with reverence to the best patterns of their species , and such as give a dignity to the na- ture of which ...
... never vary , without subjecting him to the just indignation of mankind , who are Dound , and are generally disposed , to look up with reverence to the best patterns of their species , and such as give a dignity to the na- ture of which ...
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... never intended to attack Mr. Fox , nor did he attack him directly or indirectly . His speech kept to its matter . No personality was employed even in the re- motest allusion . He never did impute to that gentleman any republican ...
... never intended to attack Mr. Fox , nor did he attack him directly or indirectly . His speech kept to its matter . No personality was employed even in the re- motest allusion . He never did impute to that gentleman any republican ...
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... never chose to find any inconsis- tency between his acts and expressions in fa- vour of liberty , and his votes on those ques- tions . But there is a time for all things . Against the opinion of many friends , even against the ...
... never chose to find any inconsis- tency between his acts and expressions in fa- vour of liberty , and his votes on those ques- tions . But there is a time for all things . Against the opinion of many friends , even against the ...
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... never had any opinions which he has seen occasion to retract , or which he has ever retracted . He , indeed , differs essentially from Mr. Fox as to the cause of that war . Mr. Fox has been pleased to say , that the Americans rebelled ...
... never had any opinions which he has seen occasion to retract , or which he has ever retracted . He , indeed , differs essentially from Mr. Fox as to the cause of that war . Mr. Fox has been pleased to say , that the Americans rebelled ...
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... never could and never did wish the colonists to be subdued by arms . He was fully persuaded , that if such should be the event , they must be held in that subdued state by a great body of standing forces , and perhaps of foreign forces ...
... never could and never did wish the colonists to be subdued by arms . He was fully persuaded , that if such should be the event , they must be held in that subdued state by a great body of standing forces , and perhaps of foreign forces ...
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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.