The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes. Vol. I.[-III.].J. Dodsley, Pall Mall., 1792 |
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... never have ventured of myself to intrude into that awful fituation . But fince I am called upon by the defire of several respectable fellow - fubjects , as I have done at other times , I give up my fears to their wishes . Whatever my ...
... never have ventured of myself to intrude into that awful fituation . But fince I am called upon by the defire of several respectable fellow - fubjects , as I have done at other times , I give up my fears to their wishes . Whatever my ...
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... never mean to depart from it . Whatever may be loft by it , I avow it . The forfeiture even of your fa- vour , if by such a declaration I could forfeit it , though the first object of my ambition , never will make me disguise my ...
... never mean to depart from it . Whatever may be loft by it , I avow it . The forfeiture even of your fa- vour , if by such a declaration I could forfeit it , though the first object of my ambition , never will make me disguise my ...
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... never afked a question of a voter on the other fide , or fupported a doubtful vote on my own . I re- fpected the abilities of my managers ; I relied on the can- dour of the court . I think the worthy sheriffs will bear me witness , that ...
... never afked a question of a voter on the other fide , or fupported a doubtful vote on my own . I re- fpected the abilities of my managers ; I relied on the can- dour of the court . I think the worthy sheriffs will bear me witness , that ...
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... never to have been produced at this election , and the she- " riffs ought not to have admitted you to poll . "豐 Gentlemen , I fhould make a ftrange figure , if my con- duct had been of this fort . I am not fo old an acquaintance of ...
... never to have been produced at this election , and the she- " riffs ought not to have admitted you to poll . "豐 Gentlemen , I fhould make a ftrange figure , if my con- duct had been of this fort . I am not fo old an acquaintance of ...
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... never promised you any thing , but humble and perfevering endeavours to do my duty . The weight of that duty , I confefs , makes me tremble ; and whoever well confiders what it is , of all things in the world will fly from what has the ...
... never promised you any thing , but humble and perfevering endeavours to do my duty . The weight of that duty , I confefs , makes me tremble ; and whoever well confiders what it is , of all things in the world will fly from what has the ...
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Страница 95 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us, a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Страница 94 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly.
Страница 90 - Compare the two. This I offer to give you is plain and simple. The other full of perplexed and intricate mazes. This is mild; that harsh. This is found by experience effectual for its purposes; the other is a new project. This is universal; the other calculated for certain colonies only. This is immediate in its conciliatory operation; the other remote, contingent, full of hazard. Mine is what becomes the dignity of a ruling people; gratuitous, unconditional, and not held out as matter of bargain...
Страница 44 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources; of descent; of form of government; of religion in the northern provinces; of manners in the southern; of education; of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government; from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up. It has grown with the growth of the people in your colonies, and increased with the increase of their wealth; a spirit, that unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in England, which, however lawful, is not reconcilable...
Страница 44 - ... of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders. Spain, in her provinces, is, perhaps, not so well obeyed as you are in yours. She complies too, she submits, she watches times. This is the immutable condition, the eternal law, of extensive and detached empire.
Страница 25 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion; and ever will be so, as long as the world //'endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last, is, let me say, of no mean force in the government of mankind. Genuine simplicity of heart is an healing and cementing principle.
Страница 41 - The colonists left England when this spirit was high, and in the emigrants was the highest of all ; and even that stream of foreigners which has been constantly flowing into these colonies has, for the greatest part, been composed of dissenters from the establishments of their several countries, and have brought with them a temper and character far from alien to that of the people with whom they mixed.
Страница 331 - India charter is a charter to establish monopoly, and to create power. Political power and commercial monopoly are not the rights of men ; and the rights to them derived from charters, it is fallacious and sophistical to call
Страница 66 - With a preamble stating the entire and perfect rights of the crown of England, it gave to the Welsh all the rights and privileges of English subjects. A political order was established; the military power gave way to the civil; the marches were turned into counties. But that a nation should have a right to English liberties, and yet no share at all in the fundamental security of these liberties, the grant of their own property...
Страница 420 - These thoughts will support a mind, which only exists for honour, under the burthen of temporary reproach. He is doing indeed a great good ; such as rarely falls to the lot, and almost as rarely coincides with the desires, of any man. Let him use his time. Let him give the whole length of the reins to his benevolence. He is now on a great eminence, where the eyes of mankind are turned to him. He may live long, he may do much. But here is the summit. He never can exceed what he does this day.