The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1902 |
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Side 89
... English astonishment and amazement , point out as clearly the kindred emotions which attend fear and wonder ? They who have a more general knowledge of languages , could produce , I make no doubt , many other and equally striking ...
... English astonishment and amazement , point out as clearly the kindred emotions which attend fear and wonder ? They who have a more general knowledge of languages , could produce , I make no doubt , many other and equally striking ...
Side 132
... English language the di- minishing ling was added to the names of persons and things that were the objects of love . Some we retain still , as darling , ( or little dear , ) and a few others . But , to this day , in or- dinary ...
... English language the di- minishing ling was added to the names of persons and things that were the objects of love . Some we retain still , as darling , ( or little dear , ) and a few others . But , to this day , in or- dinary ...
Side 191
... English ; but the property of her subjects had been preserved by capitulations , and a way opened for making her those remittances , which the war had before suspended , with as much security as in the time of peace . Her armies in ...
... English ; but the property of her subjects had been preserved by capitulations , and a way opened for making her those remittances , which the war had before suspended , with as much security as in the time of peace . Her armies in ...
Side 192
... English ministers saw further . Our author has at length let foreigners also into the secret , and made them altogether as wise as ourselves . It is their own fault if ( vulgato imperii arcano ) they are imposed upon any longer . They ...
... English ministers saw further . Our author has at length let foreigners also into the secret , and made them altogether as wise as ourselves . It is their own fault if ( vulgato imperii arcano ) they are imposed upon any longer . They ...
Side 194
... English . " They were compelled to submit ; they were subdued by dint of English valour . Will the five years ' war carried on in Canada , in which fell one of the principal hopes of this nation , and all the battles lost and gained ...
... English . " They were compelled to submit ; they were subdued by dint of English valour . Will the five years ' war carried on in Canada , in which fell one of the principal hopes of this nation , and all the battles lost and gained ...
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Side 512 - Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man. 3*. 6d. Chalmers on the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man. 5*.
Side 460 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the Poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil.
Side 506 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Side 445 - 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 91 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...
Side 466 - in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states, that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law, — and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Side 506 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.