BurkeHarper, 1879 - Всего страниц: 214 |
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... talking about his ear- lier days , not because he had any false shame about the straits and hard shifts of youthful neediness , but because he was endowed with a certain inborn stateliness of nature , which made him unwilling to waste ...
... talking about his ear- lier days , not because he had any false shame about the straits and hard shifts of youthful neediness , but because he was endowed with a certain inborn stateliness of nature , which made him unwilling to waste ...
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... talk to a gardener's workman , or some other labourer of the second or third order , while a little time before this they were so averse to have them near their persons , that they would not employ even those who could never find their ...
... talk to a gardener's workman , or some other labourer of the second or third order , while a little time before this they were so averse to have them near their persons , that they would not employ even those who could never find their ...
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... talk of an early Loyalist victory in the war , as the terrible news from Long Island . The struggle which began unsuccessfully at Brentford in Mid- dlesex , was continued at Boston in Massachusetts . The scene had changed , but the ...
... talk of an early Loyalist victory in the war , as the terrible news from Long Island . The struggle which began unsuccessfully at Brentford in Mid- dlesex , was continued at Boston in Massachusetts . The scene had changed , but the ...
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... talk of the town , and against which the government had taken the usual impotent measures of re- pression . This was the Treatise on Tactics , by a certain M. de Guibert , a colonel of the Corsican legion . The im- portant part of the ...
... talk of the town , and against which the government had taken the usual impotent measures of re- pression . This was the Treatise on Tactics , by a certain M. de Guibert , a colonel of the Corsican legion . The im- portant part of the ...
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... talk of proposing Burke for Westminster , and Wilkes , who was then omnipotent , promised him the support of the popular party . But the patriot's memory was treacherous , and he speedily forgot , for reasons of his own , an idea that ...
... talk of proposing Burke for Westminster , and Wilkes , who was then omnipotent , promised him the support of the popular party . But the patriot's memory was treacherous , and he speedily forgot , for reasons of his own , an idea that ...
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Стр. 194 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Стр. 100 - Animated with all the avarice of age and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in one after another, wave after wave, and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting.
Стр. 71 - But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience, — these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution.
Стр. 71 - 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. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.
Стр. 100 - Here the manufacturer and husbandman will bless the just and punctual hand that in India has torn the cloth from the loom, or wrested the scanty portion of rice and salt from the peasant of Bengal, or wrung from him the very opium in which he forgot his oppressions and his oppressor.
Стр. 107 - it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched state indeed when your company would not be a delight to me.' Mr. Burke, in a tremulous voice, expressive of being very tenderly affected, replied. ' My dear Sir, you have always been too good to me.
Стр. 8 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalise the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Стр. 71 - 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...