The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1G. Dearborn, 1835 - English literature |
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... Human Species 69 Proportion further considered 71 The effects of succession in visual objects explained Locke's opinion concerning Darkness con- sidered • Darkness terrible in its own nature Fitness not the cause of Beauty 72 Why ...
... Human Species 69 Proportion further considered 71 The effects of succession in visual objects explained Locke's opinion concerning Darkness con- sidered • Darkness terrible in its own nature Fitness not the cause of Beauty 72 Why ...
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... human nature his study , could not help seeing that an extensive confederacy was going on against religion , and he knew that if it succeeded , the most fearful con- sequences would result to the injury of society . On his return home ...
... human nature his study , could not help seeing that an extensive confederacy was going on against religion , and he knew that if it succeeded , the most fearful con- sequences would result to the injury of society . On his return home ...
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... human reason , and disturbed the imagination of statesmen . At the age of twenty , I thought that all abstract rights , natural rights , and such nonsense , were unfit for men to hear ; and now , that my hair is silvered by age , I am ...
... human reason , and disturbed the imagination of statesmen . At the age of twenty , I thought that all abstract rights , natural rights , and such nonsense , were unfit for men to hear ; and now , that my hair is silvered by age , I am ...
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... humanity , and religion . The clergy of France have demonstrated what it was- persuasion without fanaticism - courage ... human society to something too high for man to outrage or destroy . They must consecrate by religion , respect for ...
... humanity , and religion . The clergy of France have demonstrated what it was- persuasion without fanaticism - courage ... human society to something too high for man to outrage or destroy . They must consecrate by religion , respect for ...
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... human happiness , they rendered them altogether nugatory pro- by the most scandalous conduct in the ordinary transactions of life . When the French Revolution broke out , it was seen that public and private virtue cannot be separated ...
... human happiness , they rendered them altogether nugatory pro- by the most scandalous conduct in the ordinary transactions of life . When the French Revolution broke out , it was seen that public and private virtue cannot be separated ...
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Page xii - 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.
Page 479 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Page 246 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Page 246 - 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 as strong as links of iron. 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.
Page 488 - 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 226 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Page xxix - Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 478 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 228 - Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government. . Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution ; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system.
Page 219 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs ; and, above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own.