The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1860 |
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... question , how anything allied to such impressions can be produc- tive of delight . In answer to this , the author observes , that inaction is a very noxious principle , and the cause of many dangerous distempers by the languor it ...
... question , how anything allied to such impressions can be produc- tive of delight . In answer to this , the author observes , that inaction is a very noxious principle , and the cause of many dangerous distempers by the languor it ...
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... question of peace with ardour , and in some able pamphlets , endeavoured to impress upon the minds of ministers , the necessity of adding to our colonial strength in the West Indies , by extending our posses- sions in the vicinity ...
... question of peace with ardour , and in some able pamphlets , endeavoured to impress upon the minds of ministers , the necessity of adding to our colonial strength in the West Indies , by extending our posses- sions in the vicinity ...
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... question , it was far from giving satisfaction to the people , who were then , as they had been indeed for the space of four years prior , in a state of high politi- cal fever . Much scurrility was thrown out at the expense of some of ...
... question , it was far from giving satisfaction to the people , who were then , as they had been indeed for the space of four years prior , in a state of high politi- cal fever . Much scurrility was thrown out at the expense of some of ...
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... question . " For a wise man , he seemed to me at the time , " says Mr. BURKE , " to be governed too much by general maxims . I speak with the freedom of history , and I hope without offence . One or two of these maxims , flowing from an ...
... question . " For a wise man , he seemed to me at the time , " says Mr. BURKE , " to be governed too much by general maxims . I speak with the freedom of history , and I hope without offence . One or two of these maxims , flowing from an ...
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... question , by saying , on leaving the house after a loud and stormy debate , in which the minister preserved his equanimity and humour to the last , " Well , there's no denying it , gentlemen , this man has certainly more wit and good ...
... question , by saying , on leaving the house after a loud and stormy debate , in which the minister preserved his equanimity and humour to the last , " Well , there's no denying it , gentlemen , this man has certainly more wit and good ...
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Page 494 - 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 312 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 223 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
Page 395 - ... criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, 'and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Page 466 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole at one time is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor...
Page 217 - 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 477 - 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.
Page 494 - 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 465 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper, and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 245 - 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.