A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With Extracts from His Writings, Volum 2W. Blackwood & sons, 1840 |
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... Bedford , CHAPTER VIII . Revolutionary War - Letters on a Regicide Peace - True Principle of British Success - Nature of Party - Policy of the Revolution of 1688 , 145 182 8 :さ CHAPTER IX . Burke's Maxims of British vi CONTENTS .
... Bedford , CHAPTER VIII . Revolutionary War - Letters on a Regicide Peace - True Principle of British Success - Nature of Party - Policy of the Revolution of 1688 , 145 182 8 :さ CHAPTER IX . Burke's Maxims of British vi CONTENTS .
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... natural delight and gratitude which the clergy must feel in discovering their cause to be so feelingly adopted by the same great Assembly which had regenerated their country ! Before a year was over , from the time of those high- flown ...
... natural delight and gratitude which the clergy must feel in discovering their cause to be so feelingly adopted by the same great Assembly which had regenerated their country ! Before a year was over , from the time of those high- flown ...
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... natural feelings of humanity in our bo- Such language does not mitigate the cruel effects of reducing men of opulent condition , and their innumerable dependents , to the last distress . If I were to adopt the plan of spoliatory ...
... natural feelings of humanity in our bo- Such language does not mitigate the cruel effects of reducing men of opulent condition , and their innumerable dependents , to the last distress . If I were to adopt the plan of spoliatory ...
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... nature ; nor any religion , nor any law . Let those who never abstained from a full meal and as much wine as they could swallow , for a single day of their whole lives , satirize luxurious and pampered prelates ' if they will . But ...
... nature ; nor any religion , nor any law . Let those who never abstained from a full meal and as much wine as they could swallow , for a single day of their whole lives , satirize luxurious and pampered prelates ' if they will . But ...
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... natural rights ? This would be to act over again the scene of the criminals condemned to the galleys and their heroic deliverer , the metaphysic Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance . When I see the spirit of li- berty in action , I see ...
... natural rights ? This would be to act over again the scene of the criminals condemned to the galleys and their heroic deliverer , the metaphysic Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance . When I see the spirit of li- berty in action , I see ...
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ALPHEUS FELCH ambition Atheism Beaconsfield blood body British Burke's cause character Church civil clergy common confiscation constitution contempt corrupt crimes Crown death despotism Duke of Bedford EDMUND BURK empire enemy England equally Establishment Europe evil existence faction fear feel force fortune France French Revolution gism hand heart History of Europe honour hour human Jacobin Jacobin Club justice King labour land legislation Legislature letter liberty live Lord Majesty mankind means ment mind Minister monarchy moral multitude murder National Assembly nature never nobility noble object Octavo Old Jewry overthrow Paris party passions peace perpetual plunder politic of France political popular possession principle profligate racter rank reform Regicide religion Republic Robespierre ruin says Burke scorn shew Shillings society Sovereign spirit States-General subversion suffering thing throne tion triumph true tyranny vice virtue VOLUME wealth whole wisdom
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Side 41 - 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. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Side 150 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Side 29 - They have a right to the fruits of their industry, and to the means of making their industry fruitful. They have a right to the acquisitions of their parents, to the nourishment and improvement of their offspring, to instruction in life and to consolation in death. Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.
Side 56 - Learning paid back what it received to nobility and to priesthood; and paid it with usury, by enlarging their ideas and by furnishing their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union and their proper place! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master! Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Side 31 - ... it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes.
Side 174 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of...
Side 98 - The strong struggle in every individual to preserve possession of what he has found to belong to him, and to distinguish him is one of the securities against injustice and despotism implanted in our nature. It operates as an instinct to secure property, and to preserve communities in a settled state. What is there to shock in this? Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Side 175 - ... stagnant wasting reservoir of merit in me, or in any ancestry. He had in himself a salient living spring of generous and manly action. Every day he lived, he would have repurchased the bounty of the crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he had received. He was made a public creature, and had no enjoyment whatever but in the performance of some duty. At this exigent moment the loss of a finished man is not easily supplied.
Side 29 - One of the first motives to civil society, and which becomes one of its fundamental rules, is, that no man should be judge in his own cause. By this each person has at once divested himself of the first fundamental right of uncovenanted man, that is, to judge for himself, and to assert his own cause.
Side 182 - Cross, alive as he is, and thinking no harm in the world, he is divided into rumps, and sirloins, and briskets, and into all sorts of pieces for roasting, boiling, and stewing, that, all the while they are measuring him, his Grace is measuring me, — is invidiously comparing the bounty of the crown with the deserts of the defender of his order, and in the same moment fawning on those who have the knife half out of the sheath? Poor innocent ! " Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And...