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 |
Между кориците на книгата
Резултати 1 - 5 от 24.
Страница 7
... practice of their ancestors , as it appeared in the declaratory statutes of Queen Mary * and Queen Elizabeth , in the next clause they vest , by recognition , in their majesties , all the legal prerogatives of the crown , declaring ...
... practice of their ancestors , as it appeared in the declaratory statutes of Queen Mary * and Queen Elizabeth , in the next clause they vest , by recognition , in their majesties , all the legal prerogatives of the crown , declaring ...
Страница 19
... practice , so uncertain in the issue , and often so mischievous in the consequences , as that of “ cashiering their governors . رو Dr. Price , in this sermon , condemns very properly the practice of gross , adulatory addresses to kings ...
... practice , so uncertain in the issue , and often so mischievous in the consequences , as that of “ cashiering their governors . رو Dr. Price , in this sermon , condemns very properly the practice of gross , adulatory addresses to kings ...
Страница 43
... practice . I confess , then , that I have no sort of reliance upon either a triennial parliament , or a place - bill . With regard to the former , perhaps , it might rather serve to counteract than to promote the ends that are proposed ...
... practice . I confess , then , that I have no sort of reliance upon either a triennial parliament , or a place - bill . With regard to the former , perhaps , it might rather serve to counteract than to promote the ends that are proposed ...
Страница 75
... practice of taxation ? For my part I look upon the rights stated in that act , exactly in the manner in which I viewed them on its very first proposition , and which I have often taken the liberty , with great humility , to lay before ...
... practice of taxation ? For my part I look upon the rights stated in that act , exactly in the manner in which I viewed them on its very first proposition , and which I have often taken the liberty , with great humility , to lay before ...
Страница 84
... practice , to return to that mode which an uniform experience has marked out to you , as best ; and in which you walked with security , advan- tage , and honour , until the year 1763 Is this description too hot or too cold , too strong ...
... practice , to return to that mode which an uniform experience has marked out to you , as best ; and in which you walked with security , advan- tage , and honour , until the year 1763 Is this description too hot or too cold , too strong ...
Други издания - Преглед на всички
Често срещани думи и фрази
admiration America amongst ancient appear authority Beaconsfield beauty better body Bristol British Burke's called Catholics cause character ciples civil colonies conduct consider constitution crimes crown dignity disposition duty East India Bill EDMUND BURKE effect election empire enemy England English evil exist faction favour feel fortune French French Revolution friends genius gentlemen hereditary honour house of commons human Hyder Ali India interest Ireland justice king kingdom labour liberty Lord Lord Chatham Lord Keppel mankind manner matter means measure ment mind ministers mode monarchy moral nation nature never noble object opinion oppression parliament party passions persons political preserve prince principles protestant ascendancy reason Reform Regicide Peace religion Revolution in France Richard Burke Sir Sydney Smith society sort spirit suffer sure things tion true vices virtue Warren Hastings Whigs whilst whole
Популярни откъси
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.