The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1John West and O.C. Greenleaf, 1806 - Great Britain |
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... kingdoms , he might imagine that every sort of virtue was unnatural and foreign to the mind of man . The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many accounts of their butcheries . All empires have been cement- ed in blood ; and in ...
... kingdoms , he might imagine that every sort of virtue was unnatural and foreign to the mind of man . The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many accounts of their butcheries . All empires have been cement- ed in blood ; and in ...
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... kingdoms , and wasted the force of so extensive an empire . It is a cheap calculation to say , that the Persian empire ... kingdom was rent and divided ; which served to employ the more distinct parts to tear each other to pieces , and ...
... kingdoms , and wasted the force of so extensive an empire . It is a cheap calculation to say , that the Persian empire ... kingdom was rent and divided ; which served to employ the more distinct parts to tear each other to pieces , and ...
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... kingdoms , and sacking of cities . But I do not write to the vulgar , nor to that which only governs the vulgar , their passions . I go upon a naked and moderate calculation , just enough , without a pedantical ex- actness , to give ...
... kingdoms , and sacking of cities . But I do not write to the vulgar , nor to that which only governs the vulgar , their passions . I go upon a naked and moderate calculation , just enough , without a pedantical ex- actness , to give ...
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... kingdoms . The mind is hur- ried out of itself , by a crowd of great and confused images ; which affect because they are crowded and confused . For separate them , and you lose much of the greatness ; and join them , and you infallibly ...
... kingdoms . The mind is hur- ried out of itself , by a crowd of great and confused images ; which affect because they are crowded and confused . For separate them , and you lose much of the greatness ; and join them , and you infallibly ...
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... kingdoms , are constantly so formed according to such certain measures , as may serve to satisfy us that their beauty results from those measures on the principle of a natural mechanical cause ; or from custom ; or , in fine , from ...
... kingdoms , are constantly so formed according to such certain measures , as may serve to satisfy us that their beauty results from those measures on the principle of a natural mechanical cause ; or from custom ; or , in fine , from ...
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Page 110 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 111 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 320 - It is reconciled in policy ; and politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature ; of which the reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part.
Page 488 - The Parliament of Great Britain sits at the head of her extensive empire in two capacities: one as the local legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power; the other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial character, in which as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferior legislatures, and guides and controls them all, without annihilating any.
Page 486 - Be content to bind America by laws of trade; you have always done it. Let this be your reason for binding their trade. Do not burden them by taxes ; you were not used to do so from the beginning. Let this be your reason for not taxing. These are the arguments of states and kingdoms. Leave the rest to the schools; for there only they may be discussed with safety.
Page 444 - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.
Page 163 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out 140 With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 107 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 208 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Page 107 - When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes. Every one will be sensible of this who considers how greatly night adds to our dread in all cases of danger, and how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect minds which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings.