The Wisdom of Burke: Extracts from His Speeches and WritingsJohn Murray, 1886 - 261 sider |
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... justice of the Penal Laws against Roman Catholics then in force in Ireland , or on the political disabilities under which they suffered in 1786 , they may be found more especially in his Letters " To Richard Burke , Esq . , " " To a ...
... justice of the Penal Laws against Roman Catholics then in force in Ireland , or on the political disabilities under which they suffered in 1786 , they may be found more especially in his Letters " To Richard Burke , Esq . , " " To a ...
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... justice ; its courage ; and the national union in directing these powers to one point , and making them all centre in the public benefit . Other than these I do not know , and scarcely can con- ceive any means by which a community may ...
... justice ; its courage ; and the national union in directing these powers to one point , and making them all centre in the public benefit . Other than these I do not know , and scarcely can con- ceive any means by which a community may ...
Side 10
... justice to partake of the nature of a wrong . I held it to be , in its consequences , the worst econ- omy in the world . In saving money , I soon can count up all the good I do ; but when , by a cold penury , I blast the abilities of a ...
... justice to partake of the nature of a wrong . I held it to be , in its consequences , the worst econ- omy in the world . In saving money , I soon can count up all the good I do ; but when , by a cold penury , I blast the abilities of a ...
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... Justice . All human laws are , properly speaking , only declaratory ; they may alter the mode and application , but have no power over the substance of original justice . The other foundation of law , which is utility , must be ...
... Justice . All human laws are , properly speaking , only declaratory ; they may alter the mode and application , but have no power over the substance of original justice . The other foundation of law , which is utility , must be ...
Side 26
... As to war , if it be the means of wrong and violence , it is the sole means of justice amongst nations . Nothing can banish it from the world . They who say otherwise , intending to impose upon us , do not impose upon 26 THE WISDOM OF.
... As to war , if it be the means of wrong and violence , it is the sole means of justice amongst nations . Nothing can banish it from the world . They who say otherwise , intending to impose upon us , do not impose upon 26 THE WISDOM OF.
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Side 149 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Side 150 - All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.
Side 150 - 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.
Side 110 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties ; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections ; keeping inseparable, and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.
Side 51 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should be frequently thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Side 29 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you.
Side 28 - 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.
Side 97 - 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.
Side 119 - Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites...
Side 51 - Government is not made in virtue of natural rights, which may and do exist in total independence of it; and exist in much greater clearness, and in a much greater degree of abstract perfection : but their abstract perfection is their practical defect.