The Public and Domestic Life of the Right Hon. Edmund BurkeN. Cooke, 1854 - Всего страниц: 316 |
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... whole course an example pleasing to contemplate , and of infinite ad- vantage to study . Burke's speeches and writings have , by frequent repetition , reference , and quotation , become known to most people in and out of Parliament ...
... whole course an example pleasing to contemplate , and of infinite ad- vantage to study . Burke's speeches and writings have , by frequent repetition , reference , and quotation , become known to most people in and out of Parliament ...
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... whole life was a precept ; that his domestic ac- tions , as well as his historic deeds , were constantly of a nature to cheer , instruct , and edify mankind . Mr. Fry , in one of his popular and instructive discourses on the subject of ...
... whole life was a precept ; that his domestic ac- tions , as well as his historic deeds , were constantly of a nature to cheer , instruct , and edify mankind . Mr. Fry , in one of his popular and instructive discourses on the subject of ...
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... whole for earnest , and being led by the fascinating elegance and energetic eloquence of the diction to a conclusion far different from the one intended . This pamphlet attracted much attention , and had a fair success . It DR ...
... whole for earnest , and being led by the fascinating elegance and energetic eloquence of the diction to a conclusion far different from the one intended . This pamphlet attracted much attention , and had a fair success . It DR ...
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... whole course , the good fortune of able and effective editorship . The “ Annual Register's " historical chronicle , begun by Edmund Burke , and sustained to the present time by other writers , with consummate industry and skill , has ...
... whole course , the good fortune of able and effective editorship . The “ Annual Register's " historical chronicle , begun by Edmund Burke , and sustained to the present time by other writers , with consummate industry and skill , has ...
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... whole course of my life , without leaving me at any time a power either of getting forward with honour , or of retiring with tranquillity . This was really and truly the sub- stance of his demand upon me , to which I need not tell you I ...
... whole course of my life , without leaving me at any time a power either of getting forward with honour , or of retiring with tranquillity . This was really and truly the sub- stance of his demand upon me , to which I need not tell you I ...
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Стр. 83 - Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Стр. 88 - Is it not the same virtue which does everything for us here in England ? Do you imagine then, that it is the land tax act which raises your revenue ? that it is the annual vote in the committee of supply, which gives you your army ? or that it is the mutiny bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline ? No ! surely no ! 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...
Стр. 94 - He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Стр. 311 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Стр. 83 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Стр. 177 - He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Стр. 252 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Стр. 84 - If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion ? in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ? and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments...
Стр. 87 - 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, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Стр. 280 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.