The Works of ... Edmund Burke, Том 5F. & C. Rivington, 1803 |
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... subject . This he had fome thoughts of publishing early in the laft fpring ; but the matter gaining upon him , he found that what he had undertaken not only far exceeded the measure of a letter , but that its importance required rather ...
... subject . This he had fome thoughts of publishing early in the laft fpring ; but the matter gaining upon him , he found that what he had undertaken not only far exceeded the measure of a letter , but that its importance required rather ...
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... subject of a formal proceeding at their feftivals ; until , to my inexpreffible furprise , I found them in a fort of publick capacity , by a congratulatory addrefs , giving an authoritative fanction to the proceedings of the national ...
... subject of a formal proceeding at their feftivals ; until , to my inexpreffible furprise , I found them in a fort of publick capacity , by a congratulatory addrefs , giving an authoritative fanction to the proceedings of the national ...
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... subject of compro- mife , which naturally begets moderation ; they pro- duce temperaments , preventing the fore evil of harsh , crude , unqualified reformations ; and rendering all the headlong exertions of arbitrary power , in the few ...
... subject of compro- mife , which naturally begets moderation ; they pro- duce temperaments , preventing the fore evil of harsh , crude , unqualified reformations ; and rendering all the headlong exertions of arbitrary power , in the few ...
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... subjects , and to be more grieved for them , than folicitous for himself . It derogates little from his fortitude , while it adds infinitely to the honour of his humanity . I am very forry to fay it , very forry indeed , that fuch ...
... subjects , and to be more grieved for them , than folicitous for himself . It derogates little from his fortitude , while it adds infinitely to the honour of his humanity . I am very forry to fay it , very forry indeed , that fuch ...
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... subject of punishment by any human hand . * It is therefore of infinite importance that they should not be fuf- fered to imagine that their will , any more than that of kings , is the ftandard of right and wrong . They ought to be ...
... subject of punishment by any human hand . * It is therefore of infinite importance that they should not be fuf- fered to imagine that their will , any more than that of kings , is the ftandard of right and wrong . They ought to be ...
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Стр. 79 - ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Стр. 121 - But he has not a right to an equal dividend in the product of the joint stock; and as to the share of power, authority, and direction which each individual ought to have in the management of the state, that I must deny to be amongst the direct original rights of man in civil society; for I have in my contemplation the civil social man, and no other.
Стр. 42 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Стр. 184 - It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection.
Стр. 79 - The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of Providence, are handed down to us, and from us in the same course and order. Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory, parts...
Стр. 183 - ... approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
Стр. 79 - By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.
Стр. 172 - Who, born within the last forty years, has read one word of Collins, and Toland, and Tindal, and Chubb, and Morgan, and that whole race who called themselves Freethinkers? Who now reads Bolingbroke? Who ever read him through?
Стр. 78 - You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Стр. 36 - Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered?