Memoirs of the right honourable Edmund Burke; or, An impartial review of his private life, his public conduct, his speeches in parliament, and the different productions of his penLee and Hurst, 1798 - 378 страници |
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... took his batchelor's degree in 1749 , he came over to London , and entered himself a member of the honour- able fociety of the Middle Temple , with a view of being called to the bar . Fired by the examples of DEMOSTHENES and CI- CERO ...
... took his batchelor's degree in 1749 , he came over to London , and entered himself a member of the honour- able fociety of the Middle Temple , with a view of being called to the bar . Fired by the examples of DEMOSTHENES and CI- CERO ...
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... took Mr. BURKE by the hand , and introduced him to the marquis as not only well qualified for fuch an appointment , but eminently deferving his lordship's confidence and esteem . The The vacancy was immediately filled up ; and Mr. BURKE ...
... took Mr. BURKE by the hand , and introduced him to the marquis as not only well qualified for fuch an appointment , but eminently deferving his lordship's confidence and esteem . The The vacancy was immediately filled up ; and Mr. BURKE ...
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... took a very active part . A bill was paffed for the repeal of the cider - act , and for substi- tuting in the room of the former odious excife a new duty en- tirely different in the mode of collecting it . General warrants and the ...
... took a very active part . A bill was paffed for the repeal of the cider - act , and for substi- tuting in the room of the former odious excife a new duty en- tirely different in the mode of collecting it . General warrants and the ...
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... took care not only to indemnify himself for his fufferings and expence , but greatly to recruit his exhaufted finances . He also perfuaded the printers of the North Briton and fome other per- fons , who had been taken up by general ...
... took care not only to indemnify himself for his fufferings and expence , but greatly to recruit his exhaufted finances . He also perfuaded the printers of the North Briton and fome other per- fons , who had been taken up by general ...
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... took into confideration the state of Canada , for which province no complete fyftem of government had yet been formed . They conceived it neceffary to supply this defect ; and Mr. BURKE having drawn the outlines of a plan , preparatory ...
... took into confideration the state of Canada , for which province no complete fyftem of government had yet been formed . They conceived it neceffary to supply this defect ; and Mr. BURKE having drawn the outlines of a plan , preparatory ...
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Страница 38 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Страница 220 - But, my lords, who is the man, that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared to authorize and associate to our arms the tomahawk and scalping-knife of the savage; to call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman inhabitant of the woods...
Страница 141 - ... some way related to the business that was to be done within it. If he was ambitious, I will say this for him, his ambition was of a noble and generous strain. It was to raise himself not by...
Страница 38 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Страница 142 - 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 liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Страница 98 - ... them in a superior manner did not always preserve, when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape.
Страница 98 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the great masters of the renowned ages.
Страница 263 - But he has put to hazard his ease, his security, his interest, his power, even his darling popularity, for the benefit of a people whom he has never seen.
Страница 38 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot, too cool; for a drudge, disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Страница 104 - The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State, it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake.