Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke, Том 11804 |
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... called to make improvements by great mental exertion . In those moments , even when they seem to enjoy the confidence of their prince and country , and to be invested with full authority , they have not always apt instruments . A ...
... called to make improvements by great mental exertion . In those moments , even when they seem to enjoy the confidence of their prince and country , and to be invested with full authority , they have not always apt instruments . A ...
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... called it the very sinews of discretion . But what signify common - places , that always run parallel and equal ? Distrust is good or it is bad , ac- cording to our position and our purpose . Distrust is a defensive principle . DUTIES ...
... called it the very sinews of discretion . But what signify common - places , that always run parallel and equal ? Distrust is good or it is bad , ac- cording to our position and our purpose . Distrust is a defensive principle . DUTIES ...
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... called our country , which comprehends ( as it has been well said ) " all the charities of all * . " Nor are we left without powerful instincts to make this duty as dear and grateful to us , as it is awful and coercive . Our country is ...
... called our country , which comprehends ( as it has been well said ) " all the charities of all * . " Nor are we left without powerful instincts to make this duty as dear and grateful to us , as it is awful and coercive . Our country is ...
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... called casuistry ; which though necessary to be well studied by those who would become expert in that learning , who aim at becoming what I think Cicero somewhere calls , artifices officiorum ; it requires a very solid and ...
... called casuistry ; which though necessary to be well studied by those who would become expert in that learning , who aim at becoming what I think Cicero somewhere calls , artifices officiorum ; it requires a very solid and ...
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... - lively sen- sibility , they are the best judges of it . But for the real cause , or the appropriate remedy , they ought never to be called into council about the one or the other . They ought to be totally shut out ; because their 115.
... - lively sen- sibility , they are the best judges of it . But for the real cause , or the appropriate remedy , they ought never to be called into council about the one or the other . They ought to be totally shut out ; because their 115.
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Страница 181 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Страница 182 - All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off.
Страница 144 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Страница 144 - Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
Страница 149 - But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and, • what sort of reason is that, in which the determination...
Страница 126 - It is, besides, a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support any given part of our constitution ; or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I had not altogether tired you, give you very striking and convincing instances of it.
Страница 143 - You will observe that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity — as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Страница 53 - Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource : for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left.
Страница 186 - Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them.
Страница 106 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.