Edmund Burke: A Historical StudyMacmillan and Company, 1867 - 312 Seiten |
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abstract Adam Smith administration admiration affairs American arbitrary aristocracy authority body Burke Burke's Catholicism Catholics character Church circumstances civil clergy colonies colonists constitution corruption court despotism doctrine Economical Reform EDMUND BURKE eighteenth century election England English established Europe European evil existing force forms France French Revolution George George III hands House of Commons House of Lords human ideas India interest Ireland Irish justice King lative laws legislative less liberty Lord North Lord Rockingham measure ment Middlesex mind ministers monarch moral mother country movement nation nature never nobles Old Whigs oligarchic opinion oppression Parliament party passion patrician Pitt Pitt's political popular practical Present Discontents principles privileges Protestant Protestantism question rebellion régime reign religion revolutionists Rockingham Rohilla rotten boroughs says scheme social society sovereign Speech spirit supremacy sympathy things thinker Third Estate thought tion true truth vote whole Wilkes
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Seite 57 - 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.
Seite 280 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason ; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
Seite 60 - Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool. As little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts, by imposing on the understandings, of the people. At every step of my progress in life, (for in every step...
Seite 131 - All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern [colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Seite 311 - If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it ; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear ; every hope will forward it; and t/ien they who persist in opposing this mighty current in human affairs, will appear rather to resist the decrees of Providence itself, than the mere designs of men. They will not be resolute and firm, but perverse and obstinate.
Seite 148 - But my consideration is narrow, confined, and wholly limited to the policy of the question. I do not examine, whether the giving away a man's money be a power excepted and reserved out of the general trust of government ; and how far all mankind, in all forms of polity, are entitled to an exercise of that right by the charter of nature. Or whether, on the contrary, a right of taxation is necessarily involved in the general principle of legislation, and inseparable from the ordinary supreme power....
Seite 267 - The nature of man is intricate ; the objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity : and therefore no simple disposition or direction of power can be suitable either to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs.
Seite 161 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Seite 141 - ... in order to prove that the Americans have no right to their liberties, we are every day endeavoring to subvert the maxims which preserve the whole spirit of our own.
Seite 110 - 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.