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... took his seat in the House of Commons , and it is eighty - five years since his voice ceased to be heard there . Since his death , as during his life , opinion as to the place to which he is entitled among the eminent men of his country ...
... took his seat in the House of Commons , and it is eighty - five years since his voice ceased to be heard there . Since his death , as during his life , opinion as to the place to which he is entitled among the eminent men of his country ...
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... How admirable ! The greatest man since Milton ! " The precise date of Burke's birth cannot be stated with certainty . All that we can say is that it took place either ト 1 in 1728 or 1729 , and it is possible B 2 1. ] 3 EARLY LIFE .
... How admirable ! The greatest man since Milton ! " The precise date of Burke's birth cannot be stated with certainty . All that we can say is that it took place either ト 1 in 1728 or 1729 , and it is possible B 2 1. ] 3 EARLY LIFE .
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... took his Bachelor's degree . These five years do not appear to have been spent in strenuous industry in the beaten paths of academic routine . Like so many other men of great gifts , Burke in his youth was desultory and excursive . He ...
... took his Bachelor's degree . These five years do not appear to have been spent in strenuous industry in the beaten paths of academic routine . Like so many other men of great gifts , Burke in his youth was desultory and excursive . He ...
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... took place some time in 1755 , —a year of note in the history of literature , as the date of the publication of Johnson's Dictionary . It was upon literature , the most seductive , the most deceiving , the most dangerous of professions ...
... took place some time in 1755 , —a year of note in the history of literature , as the date of the publication of Johnson's Dictionary . It was upon literature , the most seductive , the most deceiving , the most dangerous of professions ...
Side 11
... took place in the winter of 1756. His wife was the daughter of Dr. Nugent , an Irish physician once settled at Bath . One story is that Burke consulted him in one of his visits to the west of England , and fell in love with his daughter ...
... took place in the winter of 1756. His wife was the daughter of Dr. Nugent , an Irish physician once settled at Bath . One story is that Burke consulted him in one of his visits to the west of England , and fell in love with his daughter ...
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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...