The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes. Vol. I.[-III.].J. Dodsley, Pall Mall., 1792 |
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... interest , the ambition , the malice , or the revenge , nay even the whim and caprice of one ruling man among them , is enough to arm all the reft , without any private views of their own , to the worst and blackeft purposes ; and what ...
... interest , the ambition , the malice , or the revenge , nay even the whim and caprice of one ruling man among them , is enough to arm all the reft , without any private views of their own , to the worst and blackeft purposes ; and what ...
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Edmund Burke. mulation ; honefty to convenience ; and humanity itself to the reigning interest . The whole of this mystery of ini- quity is called the reafon of state . It is a reafon , which I own I cannot penetrate . What fort of a ...
Edmund Burke. mulation ; honefty to convenience ; and humanity itself to the reigning interest . The whole of this mystery of ini- quity is called the reafon of state . It is a reafon , which I own I cannot penetrate . What fort of a ...
Side 45
... interests may chance to prevail ; and as they prevail , the ballance is overfet , now upon one fide , now upon the other . The government is one day , arbitrary power in a single person ; another , a juggling confederacy of a few to ...
... interests may chance to prevail ; and as they prevail , the ballance is overfet , now upon one fide , now upon the other . The government is one day , arbitrary power in a single person ; another , a juggling confederacy of a few to ...
Side 128
... interest in any sense ? No ; the emo- tion you feel is , left this enormous ftrength fhould be em- ployed to the purposes of rapine and deftruction . That power derives all its fublimity from the terror with which it is generally ...
... interest in any sense ? No ; the emo- tion you feel is , left this enormous ftrength fhould be em- ployed to the purposes of rapine and deftruction . That power derives all its fublimity from the terror with which it is generally ...
Side 157
... interest the imagination ; because the judgment fits free and unbiaffed to examine the point . All proportions , every arrangement of quantity is alike to the understanding , because the fame truths refult to it from all ; from greater ...
... interest the imagination ; because the judgment fits free and unbiaffed to examine the point . All proportions , every arrangement of quantity is alike to the understanding , because the fame truths refult to it from all ; from greater ...
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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 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...
Side 121 - To make any thing very terrible, obscurity* seems in general to be necessary. When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes.
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 565 - Deprived of his guiding influence, they were whirled about, the sport of every gust, and easily driven into any port ; and as those who joined with them in manning the vessel were the most directly opposite to his opinions, measures, and character, and far the most artful and most powerful...
Side 570 - ... and what repealing; what bullying, and what submitting; what doing, and undoing ; what straining, and what relaxing what assemblies dissolved for not obeying, and called again without obedience ; what troops sent out to quell resistance, and on meeting that resistance, recalled ; what shiftings, and changes, and jumblings of all kinds of men at home, which left no possibility of order, consistency, vigour, or even so much as a decent unity of colour in any one public measure.
Side 567 - 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. He worshipped that goddess wheresoever she appeared ; but he paid his particular devotions to her in her favourite habitation, in her chosen temple, the House of Commons.
Side 71 - I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty or those faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or which form a judgment of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts.
Side 125 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.