The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Wells and Lilly, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... seems at first sight something hard in that re- spect . He is obliged to bear the iniquities of those whose maxims and rules of government he published . His specula- tion is more abhorred than their practice . But if there were no ...
... seems at first sight something hard in that re- spect . He is obliged to bear the iniquities of those whose maxims and rules of government he published . His specula- tion is more abhorred than their practice . But if there were no ...
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... seem on the verge of liberty , from which they are forever debarred ; this fallacious idea of liberty , whilst it presents a vain shadow of happiness to the subject , binds faster the chains of his subjection . What is left undone , by ...
... seem on the verge of liberty , from which they are forever debarred ; this fallacious idea of liberty , whilst it presents a vain shadow of happiness to the subject , binds faster the chains of his subjection . What is left undone , by ...
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... seems most eligible to their im- aginations , for the ordering of mankind . I discover the mistakes in those plans , from the real known consequences which have resulted from them . They have inlisted reason to fight against itself ...
... seems most eligible to their im- aginations , for the ordering of mankind . I discover the mistakes in those plans , from the real known consequences which have resulted from them . They have inlisted reason to fight against itself ...
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... poetical passage which does not seem easily accounted for upon the principles I endeavour to establish . This man- ner of proceeding I should think very improper . The task would be infinite , if we could establish no principle iv PREFACE .
... poetical passage which does not seem easily accounted for upon the principles I endeavour to establish . This man- ner of proceeding I should think very improper . The task would be infinite , if we could establish no principle iv PREFACE .
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... seems too volatile to endure even the chains of a definition , cannot be properly tri- ed by any test , nor ... seem to be tacitly settled amongst the most ignorant . The learned have improved on this rude science , and reduced those ...
... seems too volatile to endure even the chains of a definition , cannot be properly tri- ed by any test , nor ... seem to be tacitly settled amongst the most ignorant . The learned have improved on this rude science , and reduced those ...
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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.