The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds, Том 1Holdsworth and Ball, 1834 - 2 страници |
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... object has often led to surmises and reports not very favourable to Mr. Burke's character , but all of which appear to be without foundation . The simple fact is , that the larger por- tion of the money was left him by his father and ...
... object has often led to surmises and reports not very favourable to Mr. Burke's character , but all of which appear to be without foundation . The simple fact is , that the larger por- tion of the money was left him by his father and ...
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... object of oratory shall be conviction and persuasion . Not that we for a moment assert that the degree of eloquence possessed by an orator is always to be estimated by his success ; by no means ; for as on the one hand there are many ...
... object of oratory shall be conviction and persuasion . Not that we for a moment assert that the degree of eloquence possessed by an orator is always to be estimated by his success ; by no means ; for as on the one hand there are many ...
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... object by the skilful use of appropriate means . In all such cases , every thing is valuable or beautiful solely from its relation of fitness to the designed end . Thus , peculiarities of thought or of style , which would justly be ...
... object by the skilful use of appropriate means . In all such cases , every thing is valuable or beautiful solely from its relation of fitness to the designed end . Thus , peculiarities of thought or of style , which would justly be ...
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... object of conviction , it is sure to exert a pernicious . influence ; and where it is so used , it will be used sparingly . When a speaker indulges in very lengthened or elaborate imagery , a suspicion is sure to be engendered , ( and ...
... object of conviction , it is sure to exert a pernicious . influence ; and where it is so used , it will be used sparingly . When a speaker indulges in very lengthened or elaborate imagery , a suspicion is sure to be engendered , ( and ...
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... objects , the presentation of which to the mind will give rise to the emotions of the sublime and beautiful . The greater part of these sections ( as a collection of independ- ent facts ) evince great powers of observation . But the ...
... objects , the presentation of which to the mind will give rise to the emotions of the sublime and beautiful . The greater part of these sections ( as a collection of independ- ent facts ) evince great powers of observation . But the ...
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Страница 186 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Страница liv - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we give and take; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others ; and, we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Страница lxvi - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
Страница 180 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Страница 204 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire, and have made the most extensive and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Страница 332 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Страница 188 - Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire; and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown. In large bodies, the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities. Nature has said it. The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and...
Страница liii - 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.
Страница liii - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Страница 332 - When at length Hyder Ali found, that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty, and no signature, could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind.