The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Illustrated in a Series of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches; with a Summary of His LifeE. Moxon, 1845 - 426 страници |
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... never married , and at his decease , in 1765 , the county of Cork property , which had been for several generations in his ancestors ' possession , devolved on his brother Edmund , by whom it was sold for £ 4000 , in 1793. Richard , the ...
... never married , and at his decease , in 1765 , the county of Cork property , which had been for several generations in his ancestors ' possession , devolved on his brother Edmund , by whom it was sold for £ 4000 , in 1793. Richard , the ...
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... never did man need more than he a sanctuary , and a refuge in the quiet of domestic bliss from the incessant agitation of his public life ; a spot of inviolable security , round which the storm of politics might roar and bluster , but never ...
... never did man need more than he a sanctuary , and a refuge in the quiet of domestic bliss from the incessant agitation of his public life ; a spot of inviolable security , round which the storm of politics might roar and bluster , but never ...
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... never to discuss abstract principles , or , at all events , not before the most imperious necessity compelled such course . The measure answered its purpose ; and had the plan it recognised been adhered to , North America might long ...
... never to discuss abstract principles , or , at all events , not before the most imperious necessity compelled such course . The measure answered its purpose ; and had the plan it recognised been adhered to , North America might long ...
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... never relinquished his attention to the comfort and prosperity of that estab- lishment . These deeds , more than his greatness , speak to his eternal honour ; and make one easily accord with Abraham Shackleton , the son of his early ...
... never relinquished his attention to the comfort and prosperity of that estab- lishment . These deeds , more than his greatness , speak to his eternal honour ; and make one easily accord with Abraham Shackleton , the son of his early ...
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... Never did eloquence so delight the ear as on this occasion . The greatest orators of an age of oratorical splendour exerted themselves to the utmost . Burke , Fox , Sheridan , Windham , followed each other in apparently endless ...
... Never did eloquence so delight the ear as on this occasion . The greatest orators of an age of oratorical splendour exerted themselves to the utmost . Burke , Fox , Sheridan , Windham , followed each other in apparently endless ...
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Страница 149 - I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy...
Страница 17 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Страница 48 - But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment; which he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Страница 355 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Страница 47 - 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 411 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Страница 410 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Страница 11 - A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Страница 351 - When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Страница 80 - Sir, I think you must perceive that I am resolved this day to have nothing at all to do with the question of the right of taxation. Some gentlemen startle, but it is true. I put it totally out of the question. It is less than nothing in my consideration.