The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volum 4F. & J. Rivington, 1852 |
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Side 3
... authority : the power might even be employed in defiance of the authority ; if the case should require , as in truth it often did require , a proceeding of that degree of boldness . The company had put him into possession of several ...
... authority : the power might even be employed in defiance of the authority ; if the case should require , as in truth it often did require , a proceeding of that degree of boldness . The company had put him into possession of several ...
Side 11
... authority to dispense with either the substance or the mode of inquiry prescribed by the act of parliament . If they had not , where , in the act , did the board of control acquire that capacity ? Indeed , it was impossible they should ...
... authority to dispense with either the substance or the mode of inquiry prescribed by the act of parliament . If they had not , where , in the act , did the board of control acquire that capacity ? Indeed , it was impossible they should ...
Side 18
... authority ? Why no other than the standing authority for all the claims which the ministry has thought fit to provide for - the grand debtor - the nabob of Arcot himself . Hear that prince , in the letter written to the court of ...
... authority ? Why no other than the standing authority for all the claims which the ministry has thought fit to provide for - the grand debtor - the nabob of Arcot himself . Hear that prince , in the letter written to the court of ...
Side 19
... authority of government should interpose in favour of claims , whose very foundation was a defiance of that authority , and whose object and end was its entire subversion . It may be said that this letter was written by the nabob of ...
... authority of government should interpose in favour of claims , whose very foundation was a defiance of that authority , and whose object and end was its entire subversion . It may be said that this letter was written by the nabob of ...
Side 23
... authority for their own debt . How they came to contract the debt to themselves , how they came to act as agents for those whom they ought to have controlled , is for your inquiry . The policy of this debt was announced to the court of ...
... authority for their own debt . How they came to contract the debt to themselves , how they came to act as agents for those whom they ought to have controlled , is for your inquiry . The policy of this debt was announced to the court of ...
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Side 172 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Side 220 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour.
Side 445 - AN ACT DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN.
Side 41 - ... compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Side 178 - Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete.
Side 229 - ... should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe, and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country, who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisonous weeds, and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life.
Side 230 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Side 173 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Side 198 - 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.