Selections from Edmund BurkeH. Holt, 1896 - 298 pages "Edmund Burke PC (12 January [NS] 1729[1]? 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution. The latter led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig party, which he dubbed the "Old Whigs", in opposition to the pro?French Revolution "New Whigs", led by Charles James Fox. Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals in the 19th century. Since the 20th century, he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism, as well as a representative of classical liberalism."--Wikipedia |
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... rule for forming admin- istrations is mere personal ability , rated by the judgment of this cabal upon it , and taken by draughts 10 from every division and denomination of public men . This decree was solemnly promulgated by the head ...
... rule for forming admin- istrations is mere personal ability , rated by the judgment of this cabal upon it , and taken by draughts 10 from every division and denomination of public men . This decree was solemnly promulgated by the head ...
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... rules of decorum for other gentlemen . They are best judges of the mode of proceeding that will recommend them to the favour of their fellow - citizens . But I confess I should look rather awkward , if I had 10 been the very first to ...
... rules of decorum for other gentlemen . They are best judges of the mode of proceeding that will recommend them to the favour of their fellow - citizens . But I confess I should look rather awkward , if I had 10 been the very first to ...
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... rule for our brethren . 25 - When the late attempt practically to annihilate that inestimable privilege was made , great disorders and tumults very unhappily and very naturally arose from it . In this state of things we were of opinion ...
... rule for our brethren . 25 - When the late attempt practically to annihilate that inestimable privilege was made , great disorders and tumults very unhappily and very naturally arose from it . In this state of things we were of opinion ...
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... rule over others not to provoke them beyond the necessity of the case ; nor to leave stings in their minds which must long rankle , even when the appearance of tranquillity is restored.— 30 We therefore assure your Majesty , that it is ...
... rule over others not to provoke them beyond the necessity of the case ; nor to leave stings in their minds which must long rankle , even when the appearance of tranquillity is restored.— 30 We therefore assure your Majesty , that it is ...
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... rule over us . Those statutes have not given us our liberties ; our liberties have pro- duced them . Every hour of your Majesty's reign your 10 title stands upon the very same foundation on which it was at first laid ; and we do not ...
... rule over us . Those statutes have not given us our liberties ; our liberties have pro- duced them . Every hour of your Majesty's reign your 10 title stands upon the very same foundation on which it was at first laid ; and we do not ...
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Page 161 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Page 176 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Page 161 - This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry; and the principle, though varied in its appearance by the varying state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced through a long succession of generations, even to the time we live in. If it should ever be totally extinguished, the loss I fear will be great. It is this which has given its character to modern Europe. It is this which has distinguished it under all its forms of government...
Page 33 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Page 176 - ... little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence ; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.
Page 176 - Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure — but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Page 176 - Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed place.
Page 32 - 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; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 160 - 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. 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.
Page 162 - All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.