The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4F. & J. Rivington, 1852 |
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Page 138
... France had hitherto been our first object in all con- siderations concerning the balance of power . The presence or absence of France totally varied every sort of speculation relative to that balance . That France is , at this time , in ...
... France had hitherto been our first object in all con- siderations concerning the balance of power . The presence or absence of France totally varied every sort of speculation relative to that balance . That France is , at this time , in ...
Page 139
... France . The French had shown themselves the ablest architects of ruin that had hitherto existed in the world . In that very short space of time they had completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy , their church , their ...
... France . The French had shown themselves the ablest architects of ruin that had hitherto existed in the world . In that very short space of time they had completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy , their church , their ...
Page 140
... France : but there is an evil there . The disease is altered ; but the vicinity of the two countries remains , and must remain ; and the natural mental habits of mankind are such , that the present distemper of France is far more likely ...
... France : but there is an evil there . The disease is altered ; but the vicinity of the two countries remains , and must remain ; and the natural mental habits of mankind are such , that the present distemper of France is far more likely ...
Page 143
... France , they will establish a very bad government — a very bad species of tyranny . That the worst effect of all their proceeding was on their military , which was rendered an army for every purpose but that of defence . That , if the ...
... France , they will establish a very bad government — a very bad species of tyranny . That the worst effect of all their proceeding was on their military , which was rendered an army for every purpose but that of defence . That , if the ...
Page 144
... France was to aid an abominable sedition , the very professed principle of which was an implacable hostility to nobility and gentry , and whose savage war - whoop was " à l'Aristocrate , " by which senseless , bloody cry , they animated ...
... France was to aid an abominable sedition , the very professed principle of which was an implacable hostility to nobility and gentry , and whose savage war - whoop was " à l'Aristocrate , " by which senseless , bloody cry , they animated ...
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Page 172 - 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.
Page 220 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour.
Page 445 - AN ACT DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN.
Page 41 - ... compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page 178 - Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete.
Page 229 - ... should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe, and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country, who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisonous weeds, and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life.
Page 230 - 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 173 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 198 - 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.