The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4F. & J. Rivington, 1852 |
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... common de- cency , to institute a vigorous inquiry into the very bottom of the business , before they admitted any part of that vast and suspicious charge to be laid upon an exhausted country . Every plan con- curred in directing such ...
... common de- cency , to institute a vigorous inquiry into the very bottom of the business , before they admitted any part of that vast and suspicious charge to be laid upon an exhausted country . Every plan con- curred in directing such ...
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... common combinations of men and of affairs , I believe nobody recollects any thing more surprising than the spectacle of this day . The right honourable gentleman ' , whose conduct is now in ques- tion , formerly stood forth in this ...
... common combinations of men and of affairs , I believe nobody recollects any thing more surprising than the spectacle of this day . The right honourable gentleman ' , whose conduct is now in ques- tion , formerly stood forth in this ...
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... the train of our ordinary ideas , or the idiom of our common language . The difference , therefore , in the two cases is not in the comparative difficulty or facility of the two subjects , but in NABOB OF ARCOT'S DEBTS . 11.
... the train of our ordinary ideas , or the idiom of our common language . The difference , therefore , in the two cases is not in the comparative difficulty or facility of the two subjects , but in NABOB OF ARCOT'S DEBTS . 11.
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... common conduct , we shall be worse than infants , if we do not put our senses under the tuition of our judgment , and effectually cure ourselves of that optical illusion which makes a brier at our nose of greater magnitude , than an oak ...
... common conduct , we shall be worse than infants , if we do not put our senses under the tuition of our judgment , and effectually cure ourselves of that optical illusion which makes a brier at our nose of greater magnitude , than an oak ...
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... common liberal curiosity of an English gentleman . Here a grand revolution commences . Mark the period , and mark the circumstances . In most of the capital changes that are recorded in the principles and system of any government , a ...
... common liberal curiosity of an English gentleman . Here a grand revolution commences . Mark the period , and mark the circumstances . In most of the capital changes that are recorded in the principles and system of any government , a ...
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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.