The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His WorksN.H. Whitaker, 1828 - 160 pages |
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... mind find a comfort in spreading the contagion of their spleen . They find an advantage too ; for it is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare . If such per- sons ...
... mind find a comfort in spreading the contagion of their spleen . They find an advantage too ; for it is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare . If such per- sons ...
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... minds : every principle is oblit- erated ; every sentiment effaced . In the mean time , that power , which all these changes aimed at securing , remains still as tottering and as uncertain as ever . They are delivered up into the hands ...
... minds : every principle is oblit- erated ; every sentiment effaced . In the mean time , that power , which all these changes aimed at securing , remains still as tottering and as uncertain as ever . They are delivered up into the hands ...
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... minds , it is more than a chance , that , in the delirium of the last stage of their dis- tempered power , they make an insane political testament , by which they throw all their remaining weight and consequence into the scale of their ...
... minds , it is more than a chance , that , in the delirium of the last stage of their dis- tempered power , they make an insane political testament , by which they throw all their remaining weight and consequence into the scale of their ...
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... minds , -I say nothing of the effect upon their for- tunes , could have appeared to them in their first departure from the right line , it is cer- tain they would have rejected every temp- tation with horror . The principle of these ...
... minds , -I say nothing of the effect upon their for- tunes , could have appeared to them in their first departure from the right line , it is cer- tain they would have rejected every temp- tation with horror . The principle of these ...
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... mind , have been taught to look on religious opinions as the only cause of enthusiastic zeal , and sectarian ... mind . They who do not love religion , hate it . The rebels to God perfectly abhor the Author of their being . They hate him ...
... mind , have been taught to look on religious opinions as the only cause of enthusiastic zeal , and sectarian ... mind . They who do not love religion , hate it . The rebels to God perfectly abhor the Author of their being . They hate him ...
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Page 46 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 87 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Page 137 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should be frequently thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Page 92 - ... and paid it with usury, by enlarging their ideas, and by furnishing their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Page 90 - ... laws are to be supported only by their own terrors, and by the concern which each individual may find in them, from his own private speculations, or can spare to them from his own private interests. In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
Page 112 - 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.
Page 7 - Suppose, Sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing the many virtues which made him one of the most amiable, as he is one of the most fortunate, men of his age, had opened to him in vision, that when in the fourth generation the third prince of the House of Brunswick had sat twelve years on the throne...
Page 90 - Nothing is left which engages the affections on the part of the commonwealth. On the principles of this mechanic philosophy, our institutions can never he imbodied, if I may use the expression, in persons, so as to create in us love, veneration, admiration, or attachment. But that sort of reason which banishes the affections is incapable of filling their place.
Page 90 - These public affections, combined with manners, are required sometimes as supplements, sometimes as correctives, always as aids to law. The precept given by a wise man, as well as a great critic, for the construction of...
Page 80 - Political arrangement, as it is a work for social ends, is to be only wrought by social means. There mind must conspire with mind. Time is required to produce that union of minds which alone can produce all the good we aim at. Our patience will achieve more than our force.