A Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. at the Guildhall, in Bristol: Previous to the Late Election in that City Upon Certain Points Relative to His Parliamentary ConductJ. Dodsley, 1780 - 68 страници |
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... kingdom , ( with whose formal thanks I was covered over ) whilft I la- boured on no less than five bills for a public re- form , and fought , against the opposition of great abilities , and of the greatest power , every clause , and ...
... kingdom , ( with whose formal thanks I was covered over ) whilft I la- boured on no less than five bills for a public re- form , and fought , against the opposition of great abilities , and of the greatest power , every clause , and ...
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... kingdom , in profperity and in affection , whatever remained of the empire . I was true to my old , ftanding , invariable principle , that all things , which came from Great Britain , should iffue as a gift of her bounty and beneficence ...
... kingdom , in profperity and in affection , whatever remained of the empire . I was true to my old , ftanding , invariable principle , that all things , which came from Great Britain , should iffue as a gift of her bounty and beneficence ...
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... kingdoms . To be pleased with my fervice , was their affair , not mine . I was an Irishman in the Irish business , just as much as I was an American , when on the fame Irish perpetual mutiny act . principles , principles , I wished you ...
... kingdoms . To be pleased with my fervice , was their affair , not mine . I was an Irishman in the Irish business , just as much as I was an American , when on the fame Irish perpetual mutiny act . principles , principles , I wished you ...
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... kingdom had kept the authority I wished it to maintain , by a grave forefight , and by an equitable temperance in the use of its power . The next article of charge on my public conduct , and that which I find rather the most prevalent ...
... kingdom had kept the authority I wished it to maintain , by a grave forefight , and by an equitable temperance in the use of its power . The next article of charge on my public conduct , and that which I find rather the most prevalent ...
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... kingdom in particular , against Papifts , which are as bloody as any of thofe which had been enacted by the Popish princes and states ; and where those laws were not bloody , in my opi- nion , they were worfe ; as they were flow , cruel ...
... kingdom in particular , against Papifts , which are as bloody as any of thofe which had been enacted by the Popish princes and states ; and where those laws were not bloody , in my opi- nion , they were worfe ; as they were flow , cruel ...
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Страница 64 - No! the charges against me are all of one kind, that I have pushed the principles of general justice and benevolence too far; further than a cautious policy would warrant; and further than the opinions of many would go along with me. — In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress — I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted.
Страница 23 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Страница 23 - ... and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity.
Страница 27 - Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool. As little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts by imposing on the understandings, of the people. At every step of my progress in life, (for in every step was I traversed and opposed,) and at every turnpike I met, I was...
Страница 63 - If I have had my share in any measure giving quiet to private property and private conscience ; if by my vote I have aided in securing to families the best possession, peace ; if I have joined in reconciling kings to their subjects, and subjects to their prince ; if I have assisted to loosen the foreign holdings of the citizen, and taught him to look for his protection to the laws of his country, and for his comfort to the...
Страница 3 - ... in men of business, a degenerate and inglorious sloth, has made him flag and languish in his course ? This is the object of our inquiry.
Страница 56 - I have no idea of a liberty unconnected with honesty and justice. Nor do I believe, that any good constitutions of government or of freedom, can find it necessary for their security to doom any part of the people to a permanent slavery.
Страница 52 - ... rights; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order, for every kind and every quality of property and of dignity...
Страница 67 - Reafon, would he fkip and play ,? " Pleas'd to the laft, he crops the flow'ry " food, " And licks the hand juft rais'd to fhed his
Страница 49 - ... world. This is the appetite but of a few. It is a luxury, it is a privilege, it is an indulgence for those who are at their ease. But we are all of us made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink from pain and poverty and disease. It is an instinct; and under the direction of reason, instinct is always in the right.