The Works of Edmund Burke: With a MemoirGeorge Dearborn, 1834 |
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... direct from college , while others assert , that he went first to Glasgow , where he offered him- self as a candidate for the professorship of logic in that university , being induced so to do by seeing a placard affixed to the gate of ...
... direct from college , while others assert , that he went first to Glasgow , where he offered him- self as a candidate for the professorship of logic in that university , being induced so to do by seeing a placard affixed to the gate of ...
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... direct author of this goodly scheme , but the common one hitherto has been , that it emanated from the active mind of Mr. BURKE , who certainly considered it one of the beneficial acts of the party with whom he was connected . Others ...
... direct author of this goodly scheme , but the common one hitherto has been , that it emanated from the active mind of Mr. BURKE , who certainly considered it one of the beneficial acts of the party with whom he was connected . Others ...
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... direct the operations of the mind ; those who hoped to see morality illustrated and enforced ; those who looked for new helps to society and go vernment ; those who desired to see the cha- racters and passions of mankind delineated ; in ...
... direct the operations of the mind ; those who hoped to see morality illustrated and enforced ; those who looked for new helps to society and go vernment ; those who desired to see the cha- racters and passions of mankind delineated ; in ...
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... direct me in all my enquiries . I had indeed often reflected on that subject before I could prevail on myself to communi- cate my reflections to any body . They were generally melancholy enough ; as those usually are which carry us ...
... direct me in all my enquiries . I had indeed often reflected on that subject before I could prevail on myself to communi- cate my reflections to any body . They were generally melancholy enough ; as those usually are which carry us ...
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... direct our reasoning . To these we should conform in good earnest ; and not think to force nature , and the whole order of her system , by a com- pliance with our pride , and folly , to conform to our artificial regulations . It is by a ...
... direct our reasoning . To these we should conform in good earnest ; and not think to force nature , and the whole order of her system , by a com- pliance with our pride , and folly , to conform to our artificial regulations . It is by a ...
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Страница 489 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Страница 399 - 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 245 - 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 chuse rather to be happy citizens, than subtle disputants.
Страница 228 - In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole: and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your Colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of Liberty is stronger in the English Colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Страница 187 - When bad men combine, the good must associate ; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Страница 481 - They have a right to the fruits of their industry and to the means of making their industry fruitful. They have a right to the acquisitions of their parents ; to the nourishment and improvement of their offspring ; to instruction in life, and to consolation in death. Whatever each man can separately do without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself ; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.
Страница 228 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. 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...
Страница 249 - 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 249 - 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 honourable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Страница 399 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.