Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke, Том 21804 |
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... render it fit to be cast into an oligarchical shape , or to remain always in it . **** A plebeian oligarchy is a monster : and no people , not absolutely domestic or predial slaves , will long endure it . OPINIONS . THE interest in ...
... render it fit to be cast into an oligarchical shape , or to remain always in it . **** A plebeian oligarchy is a monster : and no people , not absolutely domestic or predial slaves , will long endure it . OPINIONS . THE interest in ...
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... renders a critical situation a necessary one , it is our business to keep free from the evils attendant upon it ; and not to fly from the situation itself . If a fortress is seated in an unwhole- some air , an officer of the garrison is ...
... renders a critical situation a necessary one , it is our business to keep free from the evils attendant upon it ; and not to fly from the situation itself . If a fortress is seated in an unwhole- some air , an officer of the garrison is ...
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... something uncertain on the confines of the two empires which they first pass through , and which renders the change easy and imperceptible . There are even a sort of splendid impositions so well contriv- 62 POLICY POLITICAL APOSTATES.
... something uncertain on the confines of the two empires which they first pass through , and which renders the change easy and imperceptible . There are even a sort of splendid impositions so well contriv- 62 POLICY POLITICAL APOSTATES.
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... renders a man's virtue his habit ; and not a series of unconnected acts . Through just prejudice , his duty becomes a part of his nature . PRESCRIPTION . THE doctrine of prescription , one of the greatest of their own lawyers * tells us ...
... renders a man's virtue his habit ; and not a series of unconnected acts . Through just prejudice , his duty becomes a part of his nature . PRESCRIPTION . THE doctrine of prescription , one of the greatest of their own lawyers * tells us ...
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... render the state itself in some degree subservient to it , when their religion ( if such it might be called ) was nothing but a mere negation of some other - without any positive idea either of doctrine , discipline , worship , or ...
... render the state itself in some degree subservient to it , when their religion ( if such it might be called ) was nothing but a mere negation of some other - without any positive idea either of doctrine , discipline , worship , or ...
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Стр. 91 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Стр. 105 - The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes ; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. Th6 rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned. The rights of men in governments are their advantages ; and these are often in balances between differences of good ; in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes, between evil and evil.
Стр. 80 - The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science; because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate...
Стр. 41 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle...
Стр. 75 - It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigour and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth ; so to be patriots, as not to forget we are gentlemen.
Стр. 101 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.
Стр. 26 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.
Стр. 103 - ... inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection. This can only be done by a power out of themselves ; and not, in the exercise of its function, subject to that will and to those passions which it is its office to bridle and sub102 due. In this sense the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.
Стр. 139 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of...