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... opinion as to the place to which he is entitled among the eminent men of his country has touched every extreme . Tories have extolled him as the saviour of Europe . Whigs have detested him as the destroyer of his party . One ...
... opinion as to the place to which he is entitled among the eminent men of his country has touched every extreme . Tories have extolled him as the saviour of Europe . Whigs have detested him as the destroyer of his party . One ...
Side 2
... Opinion is slowly , but without reaction , settling down to the verdict that Burke is one of the abiding names in our history , not because he either saved Europe or destroyed the Whig party ; but because he added to the permanent ...
... Opinion is slowly , but without reaction , settling down to the verdict that Burke is one of the abiding names in our history , not because he either saved Europe or destroyed the Whig party ; but because he added to the permanent ...
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... opinion is that he was born at Dublin on the 12th of January , 1729 ( N.S. ) . His father was a solicitor in good practice , and is believed to have been descended from some Bourkes of county Limerick , who held a respectable local ...
... opinion is that he was born at Dublin on the 12th of January , 1729 ( N.S. ) . His father was a solicitor in good practice , and is believed to have been descended from some Bourkes of county Limerick , who held a respectable local ...
Side 8
... George Grenville , in words that all who think about schemes of education ought to ponder , " is , in my opinion , one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and 8 [ CHAP . BURKE .
... George Grenville , in words that all who think about schemes of education ought to ponder , " is , in my opinion , one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and 8 [ CHAP . BURKE .
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... opinions , made him a dazzling figure . This was the late Noble Writer whose opinions Burke intended to ridicule , by re- ducing them to an absurdity in an exaggeration of Boling- broke's own manner . As it happened , the public did not ...
... opinions , made him a dazzling figure . This was the late Noble Writer whose opinions Burke intended to ridicule , by re- ducing them to an absurdity in an exaggeration of Boling- broke's own manner . As it happened , the public did not ...
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Side 199 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Side 104 - Animated with all the avarice of age and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in one after another, wave after wave, and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting.
Side 75 - 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 75 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Side 104 - Here the manufacturer and husbandman will bless the just and punctual hand that in India has torn the cloth from the loom, or wrested the scanty portion of rice and salt from the peasant of Bengal, or wrung from him the very opium in which he forgot his oppressions and his oppressor.
Side 111 - it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched state indeed when your company would not be a delight to me.' Mr. Burke, in a tremulous voice, expressive of being very tenderly affected, replied. ' My dear Sir, you have always been too good to me.
Side 8 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalise the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Side 85 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Side 146 - But whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe.
Side 30 - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; 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...