The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellaniesGeorge Bell & sons, 1889 - Great Britain |
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... minister could not exercise his functions ; a warlike people , amongst whom a general did not dare either to gain or lose a battle ; a learned nation , in which a philosopher could not venture on a free inquiry . This was the city which ...
... minister could not exercise his functions ; a warlike people , amongst whom a general did not dare either to gain or lose a battle ; a learned nation , in which a philosopher could not venture on a free inquiry . This was the city which ...
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... ministry dangerous from its very constitution , as well as its measures , to find themselves , whenever they faced their adversaries , continually attacked on the rear by a set of men who pretended to be actuated by motives similar to ...
... ministry dangerous from its very constitution , as well as its measures , to find themselves , whenever they faced their adversaries , continually attacked on the rear by a set of men who pretended to be actuated by motives similar to ...
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... minister this nation has enjoyed since his Majesty's accession is the Earl of Bute ; and the only good Managers of revenue we have seen are Lord Despenser and Mr. George Grenville ; and , under the description of men of virtue and ...
... minister this nation has enjoyed since his Majesty's accession is the Earl of Bute ; and the only good Managers of revenue we have seen are Lord Despenser and Mr. George Grenville ; and , under the description of men of virtue and ...
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... ministry is indeed of a strange character ; at once indolent and distracted . But if a minis- terial system should be formed , actuated by such maxims as are avowed in this piece , the vices of the present ministry would become their ...
... ministry is indeed of a strange character ; at once indolent and distracted . But if a minis- terial system should be formed , actuated by such maxims as are avowed in this piece , the vices of the present ministry would become their ...
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... , consider- ed it in that light ; all the world , except the then friends of tho then ministry , who wept for our victcries , and were in P. 9 . 2 P.2 This haste to get rid of the burden of our 194 OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION ,
... , consider- ed it in that light ; all the world , except the then friends of tho then ministry , who wept for our victcries , and were in P. 9 . 2 P.2 This haste to get rid of the burden of our 194 OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION ,
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Page 74 - Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
Page 476 - State, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 92 - Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 508 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Page 467 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
Page 454 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is (let me say) of no mean force in the government of mankind.
Page 508 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood, that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another ; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation ; the cement is gone ; the cohesion is loosened ; and every thing hastens to decay and dissolution.
Page 468 - Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states, that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Page 507 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.