The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].1792 |
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Side 205
... NECESSARY FOR THE FINER ORGANS . AS common labour , which is a mode of pain , is the exer- cife of the groffer , a mode of terror is the exercise of the finer parts of the system ; and if a certain mode of pain be of fuch a nature as to ...
... NECESSARY FOR THE FINER ORGANS . AS common labour , which is a mode of pain , is the exer- cife of the groffer , a mode of terror is the exercise of the finer parts of the system ; and if a certain mode of pain be of fuch a nature as to ...
Side 357
... upon these general propofitions , I should think it very necessary to ask a few questions about fome of them . For inftance , what does he * P . 39 . mean mean by talking of an adherence to the old navigation STATE OF THE NATIO N. 357.
... upon these general propofitions , I should think it very necessary to ask a few questions about fome of them . For inftance , what does he * P . 39 . mean mean by talking of an adherence to the old navigation STATE OF THE NATIO N. 357.
Side 517
... making a more cer- tain and adequate provifion for defraying the charge of the administration of justice , and fupport of civil government , in in fuch provinces where it shall be found necessary ; ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 517.
... making a more cer- tain and adequate provifion for defraying the charge of the administration of justice , and fupport of civil government , in in fuch provinces where it shall be found necessary ; ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 517.
Side 518
... necessary ; and to- wards further defraying the expences of defending , protect- ing , and fecuring the faid dominions . You have heard this pompous performance . Now where is the revenue which is to do all these mighty things ? Five ...
... necessary ; and to- wards further defraying the expences of defending , protect- ing , and fecuring the faid dominions . You have heard this pompous performance . Now where is the revenue which is to do all these mighty things ? Five ...
Side 544
... necessary that a revenue fhould be raised " there . " Then came the technical words of “ giving and " granting ; " and thus a complete American revenue act was made in all the forms , and with a full avowal of the right , equity ...
... necessary that a revenue fhould be raised " there . " Then came the technical words of “ giving and " granting ; " and thus a complete American revenue act was made in all the forms , and with a full avowal of the right , equity ...
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Side 76 - ... a sort of creative power of its own; either in representing at pleasure the images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses, or in combining those images in a new manner, and according to a different order.
Side 564 - ... 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 99 - Without all doubt, the torments which we may be made to suffer are much greater in their effect on the body and mind, than any pleasures which the most learned voluptuary could suggest, or than the liveliest imagination, and the most sound and exquisitely sensible body, could enjoy.
Side 115 - ... as for those called critics, they have generally sought the rule of the arts in the wrong place; they sought it among poems, pictures, engravings, statues, and buildings. But art can never give the rules that make an art. This is, I believe, the reason why artists in general, and poets principally, have been confined in so narrow a circle: they have been rather imitators of one another than of nature...
Side 112 - Now whatever either on good or upon bad grounds tends to raise a man in his own opinion, produces a sort of swelling and triumph that is extremely grateful to the human mind; and this swelling is never more perceived, nor operates with more force, than when without danger we are conversant with terrible objects, the mind always claiming to itself some part of the dignity and importance of the things which it contemplates.
Side 574 - Sir, let the gentlemen on the other side call forth all their ability, let the best of them get up and tell me, what one character of liberty the Americans have, and what one brand of slavery they are free from, if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce, and at the same time are made packhorses of every tax you choose to impose, without the least share in granting them. When they bear the...
Side 523 - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of 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.
Side 105 - The satisfaction has been commonly attributed, first, to the comfort we receive in considering that so melancholy a story...
Side 192 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Side 122 - IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination. If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landscape, I present a very clear idea of those objects; but...