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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... once ; and the phrenfy of the American war broke in upon us like a deluge . This victory , which feemed to put an immediate end to all difficulties , perfected us in that spirit 3 of [ ] of domination , which our unparalleled prosperity ...
... once ; and the phrenfy of the American war broke in upon us like a deluge . This victory , which feemed to put an immediate end to all difficulties , perfected us in that spirit 3 of [ ] of domination , which our unparalleled prosperity ...
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... once more I do not mean to extenuate or excufe . Why fhould I , when the things charged are among those upon which I found all my reputation ? What would be left to me , if I myself was the man , who foftened , and blended , and diluted ...
... once more I do not mean to extenuate or excufe . Why fhould I , when the things charged are among those upon which I found all my reputation ? What would be left to me , if I myself was the man , who foftened , and blended , and diluted ...
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... once to resist the power of France , and to caft off yours . As for us , we were able neither to protect nor to restrain them . Forty thousand men were raised and dif ciplined without commiffion from the crown . Two illegal armies were ...
... once to resist the power of France , and to caft off yours . As for us , we were able neither to protect nor to restrain them . Forty thousand men were raised and dif ciplined without commiffion from the crown . Two illegal armies were ...
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... once judge and party . Every idea of judicial order is fubverted by this procedure . If the infolvency be no crime , why is it punished with arbitrary imprisonment ? If it be a crime , why is it deli- vered into private hands to pardon ...
... once judge and party . Every idea of judicial order is fubverted by this procedure . If the infolvency be no crime , why is it punished with arbitrary imprisonment ? If it be a crime , why is it deli- vered into private hands to pardon ...
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... once in every parliament , and lately twice , the legislature has been obliged to make a general arbitrary jail - delivery , and at once to set open , by its fovereign authority , all the prisons in England . Gentlemen , I never ...
... once in every parliament , and lately twice , the legislature has been obliged to make a general arbitrary jail - delivery , and at once to set open , by its fovereign authority , all the prisons in England . Gentlemen , I never ...
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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.