The Wisdom of Burke: Extracts from His Speeches and WritingsJohn Murray, 1886 - 261 sider |
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Side 68
... POPULAR DISCONTENTS TOO OFTEN ARISE FROM MISGOVERNMENT . I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong . They have been so , frequently and outrageously , both in other countries and in this . But I do say ...
... POPULAR DISCONTENTS TOO OFTEN ARISE FROM MISGOVERNMENT . I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong . They have been so , frequently and outrageously , both in other countries and in this . But I do say ...
Side 69
... popular discontents have been very prevalent , it may well be affirmed and supported that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution , or in the conduct of government . people have no interest in disorder . they ...
... popular discontents have been very prevalent , it may well be affirmed and supported that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution , or in the conduct of government . people have no interest in disorder . they ...
Side 78
... popularity , and without one aid from the little remaining power of the Crown , it is not to be expected that they will take on them that odium which more or less attaches upon every exertion of strong power . The ministers of popu ...
... popularity , and without one aid from the little remaining power of the Crown , it is not to be expected that they will take on them that odium which more or less attaches upon every exertion of strong power . The ministers of popu ...
Side 80
... popular . Suspicions will be raised of his fidelity to his cause . Moderation will be stigmatised as the virtue of cowards ; and compromise as the prudence of traitors ; until , in hopes of preserving the credit which may enable him to ...
... popular . Suspicions will be raised of his fidelity to his cause . Moderation will be stigmatised as the virtue of cowards ; and compromise as the prudence of traitors ; until , in hopes of preserving the credit which may enable him to ...
Side 94
... popular origin cannot therefore be the characteristical distinction of a popular re- presentative . This belongs equally to all parts of government , and in all forms . The virtue , spirit , and essence of a House of Commons consists in ...
... popular origin cannot therefore be the characteristical distinction of a popular re- presentative . This belongs equally to all parts of government , and in all forms . The virtue , spirit , and essence of a House of Commons consists in ...
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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.