The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1860 - English literature |
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... opinions and sen- timents of a nation , renowned for wisdom , and celebrated in all ages for a well understood and ... opinion of these two gentlemen had ex- tended a great way beyond themselves . He was , however , well aware of the ...
... opinions and sen- timents of a nation , renowned for wisdom , and celebrated in all ages for a well understood and ... opinion of these two gentlemen had ex- tended a great way beyond themselves . He was , however , well aware of the ...
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... opinions . If an idea consonant to the doctrine of his book , or favourable to his con- duct , lurks in the minds of any persons in that description , it is to be considered only as a peculiarity which they indulge to their own private ...
... opinions . If an idea consonant to the doctrine of his book , or favourable to his con- duct , lurks in the minds of any persons in that description , it is to be considered only as a peculiarity which they indulge to their own private ...
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... opinion , to have prevented their eulogies from being tried on the test of facts . If their panegyric had been answered with an invec- tive ( bating the difference in point of eloquence ) the one would have been as good as the other ...
... opinion , to have prevented their eulogies from being tried on the test of facts . If their panegyric had been answered with an invec- tive ( bating the difference in point of eloquence ) the one would have been as good as the other ...
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... opinion , that by his exclusion they have had any loss at all . A man whose opinions are so very adverse to theirs , adverse , as it was expressed , " as pole to pole , " so mischievously as well as so directly adverse , that they found ...
... opinion , that by his exclusion they have had any loss at all . A man whose opinions are so very adverse to theirs , adverse , as it was expressed , " as pole to pole , " so mischievously as well as so directly adverse , that they found ...
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... opinion that our general rights over that country would have been preserved by this timely conces- sion . * When , instead of this , a Boston port biil , a Massachusett's charter bill , a Fishery bill , an Intercourse bill , I know not ...
... opinion that our general rights over that country would have been preserved by this timely conces- sion . * When , instead of this , a Boston port biil , a Massachusett's charter bill , a Fishery bill , an Intercourse bill , I know not ...
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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.