The Works of ... Edmund Burke, Volum 2F. & C. Rivington, 1803 |
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Side 47
... stand friendless in Europe . But of this naked condition of their country , I know fome people are not ashamed . They have their system of po- liticks ; our ancestors grew great by another . In this manner thefe virtuous men concluded ...
... stand friendless in Europe . But of this naked condition of their country , I know fome people are not ashamed . They have their system of po- liticks ; our ancestors grew great by another . In this manner thefe virtuous men concluded ...
Side 53
... standing autho- rity , the Confiderations . We find there , p . 43 * , the peace establishment of 1764 and 1763 stated at £ .3,609,700 . This is near two hundred thoufand pounds lefs than that given in The State of the Nation . But even ...
... standing autho- rity , the Confiderations . We find there , p . 43 * , the peace establishment of 1764 and 1763 stated at £ .3,609,700 . This is near two hundred thoufand pounds lefs than that given in The State of the Nation . But even ...
Side 58
... stands engaged , and is juft the fame whether five or 500 years annuity has been paid for it . In private life , no man perfuades himself that he has borrowed £ .200 , becaufe be happens to have paid 20 years intereft on loan of £ .100 ...
... stands engaged , and is juft the fame whether five or 500 years annuity has been paid for it . In private life , no man perfuades himself that he has borrowed £ .200 , becaufe be happens to have paid 20 years intereft on loan of £ .100 ...
Side 94
... stand before him . Then , when he comes to provide , Amál- thea's horn is in his hands ; and he pours out with an inexhauftible bounty , taxes , duties , loans , and revenues , without uneafiness to himself , or burthen to the publick ...
... stand before him . Then , when he comes to provide , Amál- thea's horn is in his hands ; and he pours out with an inexhauftible bounty , taxes , duties , loans , and revenues , without uneafiness to himself , or burthen to the publick ...
Side 95
... " literated parts , and trace its operation . The standing expence of the prefent ( his projected ) < 6 * P. 33 . † P. 33 . 1 peace 66 peace establishment improved by the experience of the two STATE OF THE NATION . 95.
... " literated parts , and trace its operation . The standing expence of the prefent ( his projected ) < 6 * P. 33 . † P. 33 . 1 peace 66 peace establishment improved by the experience of the two STATE OF THE NATION . 95.
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Side 333 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest, upon some particular principle, in which they are all agreed.
Side 286 - ... of the people, as this would indicate some consanguinity, some sympathy of nature with their constituents, than that they should in all cases be wholly untouched by the opinions and feelings of the people out of doors.
Side 418 - ... 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.
Side 388 - But it may be truly said, that men too much conversant in office are rarely minds of remarkable enlargement. Their habits of office are apt to give them a turn to think the substance of business not to be much more important than the forms in which it is conducted.
Side 433 - I look, I say, on the imperial rights of Great Britain, and the privileges which the colonists ought to enjoy under these rights, to be just the most reconcilable things in the world.
Side 422 - But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame ; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Side 433 - Reflect how you are to govern a people, who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue ; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience...
Side 397 - ... and at the head of the treasury department. It was indeed in a situation of little rank and no consequence, suitable to the mediocrity of my talents and pretensions. But a situation near enough to enable me to see, as well as others, what was going on ; and I did see in...
Side 334 - Therefore every honourable connexion will avow It is their first purpose, to pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution, with all the power and authority of the state.
Side 363 - 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. It is the weight of that preamble of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear.