The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Wells and Lilly, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... nature , which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please ; but owning this , I still in- sist in charging it to political regulations , that these broils are so frequent , so cruel , and attended with ...
... nature , which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please ; but owning this , I still in- sist in charging it to political regulations , that these broils are so frequent , so cruel , and attended with ...
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... nature of society , will find they result directly from its constitution . For as subordination , or , in other ... NATURAL SOCIETY . 39.
... nature of society , will find they result directly from its constitution . For as subordination , or , in other ... NATURAL SOCIETY . 39.
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... nature , and subject to the same law . There is something so averse from our nature in these artificial politi- cal distinctions , that we need no other trumpet to kindle us to war , and destruction . But there is something so benign ...
... nature , and subject to the same law . There is something so averse from our nature in these artificial politi- cal distinctions , that we need no other trumpet to kindle us to war , and destruction . But there is something so benign ...
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... nature , should preserve itself by trampling upon the law of nature . To prove that these sorts of policed societies are a viola- tion offered to nature , and a constraint upon the human mind , it needs only to look upon the sanguinary ...
... nature , should preserve itself by trampling upon the law of nature . To prove that these sorts of policed societies are a viola- tion offered to nature , and a constraint upon the human mind , it needs only to look upon the sanguinary ...
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... nature is preferable to such a government ; we have the consent of all sensible and gene- rous men , who carry it yet further , and avow that death it- self is preferable ; and yet this species of government , so justly condemned , and ...
... nature is preferable to such a government ; we have the consent of all sensible and gene- rous men , who carry it yet further , and avow that death it- self is preferable ; and yet this species of government , so justly condemned , and ...
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Page 115 - 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 118 - 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: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes, There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 171 - 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, 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 459 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 121 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing.
Page 113 - Of the passion caused by the SUBLIME The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is Astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that object which employs it.
Page 117 - 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 324 - 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 478 - Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies: that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Page 443 - 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.