Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke, Том 21804 |
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... suffered in bad hands , may chance to fall rather on the injured than the criminal . Before men are put forward into the great trusts of the state , they ought by their conduct to have obtain- ed such a degree of estimation in their ...
... suffered in bad hands , may chance to fall rather on the injured than the criminal . Before men are put forward into the great trusts of the state , they ought by their conduct to have obtain- ed such a degree of estimation in their ...
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... suffered by a controuling parliament to continue in any of those situations which confer the lead and direction of all our public affairs ; because such a man has no connexion with the interest of the people . Those knots or cabals of ...
... suffered by a controuling parliament to continue in any of those situations which confer the lead and direction of all our public affairs ; because such a man has no connexion with the interest of the people . Those knots or cabals of ...
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... suffer our vices to usurp the place of our judgment . **** A greater and more ruinous mistake cannot be fallen into , than that the trades of agriculture and grazing can be conducted upon any other than the common principles of commerce ...
... suffer our vices to usurp the place of our judgment . **** A greater and more ruinous mistake cannot be fallen into , than that the trades of agriculture and grazing can be conducted upon any other than the common principles of commerce ...
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... suffering from the inequality of its representation ; what district from having no representation at all ? Not only our mo- narchy and our peerage secure the equality on which our unity depends , but it is the spirit of the house of ...
... suffering from the inequality of its representation ; what district from having no representation at all ? Not only our mo- narchy and our peerage secure the equality on which our unity depends , but it is the spirit of the house of ...
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... suffered nothing in their estimation . I admit , that the greater interests of state will for a moment supersede all other considera- tions but if there was a rule that a sovereign never should let down his dignity without a sure ...
... suffered nothing in their estimation . I admit , that the greater interests of state will for a moment supersede all other considera- tions but if there was a rule that a sovereign never should let down his dignity without a sure ...
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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...