Burke, Select Works, Band 3Clarendon Press, 1877 - 712 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 23
Seite x
... reform in the Executive as well as the Legislative . Montesquieu had said that England must perish as soon as the Legislative power became more corrupt than the Executive ; but it now seemed as if both branches of the government were ...
... reform in the Executive as well as the Legislative . Montesquieu had said that England must perish as soon as the Legislative power became more corrupt than the Executive ; but it now seemed as if both branches of the government were ...
Seite xi
... Reform was rather a cry than a political movement ; but in France and Austria it was a movement as well as a cry . In the latter country , indeed , the Reform was supplied before the demand , and the Emperor Joseph was forced by an ...
... Reform was rather a cry than a political movement ; but in France and Austria it was a movement as well as a cry . In the latter country , indeed , the Reform was supplied before the demand , and the Emperor Joseph was forced by an ...
Seite xiv
... reform , is stubbornly opposed to revolution . He shows that the main body of the British nation , from its historical traditions , from the opinions and doctrines transmitted to it from the earliest times , from its constitution and ...
... reform , is stubbornly opposed to revolution . He shows that the main body of the British nation , from its historical traditions , from the opinions and doctrines transmitted to it from the earliest times , from its constitution and ...
Seite xix
... Reform . That of France was in a still worse case . Burke fully recognised the necessity of removing the ' defects , redundancies , and errors ' of the law ( p . 112 ) , though he still maintained it to be the ' collected reason of ages ...
... Reform . That of France was in a still worse case . Burke fully recognised the necessity of removing the ' defects , redundancies , and errors ' of the law ( p . 112 ) , though he still maintained it to be the ' collected reason of ages ...
Seite xx
... reform . He had taken the lead in 1780 , in advocating reforms dealing with the Royal property , which have since been carried out with general approval . He had commenced , early in his career , a treatise advocating that reform of the ...
... reform . He had taken the lead in 1780 , in advocating reforms dealing with the Royal property , which have since been carried out with general approval . He had commenced , early in his career , a treatise advocating that reform of the ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abuse Alluding allusion antient argument Aristotle army assignats authority Bishop body Burke Burke's called cause character church Cicero civil clergy confiscation constitution crown degree despotism doctrine effect election Encyclopédie England English established estates evil expences favour force France French French Revolution habits hereditary honour House of Commons house of lords human ideas interest Jacobins justice king king of France kingdom landed Letter liberty Lord Louis XIV mankind means ment metaphysic mind minister monarchy Montesquieu moral National Assembly nature never nobility noble note to vol object Old Jewry opinion Paris Parliament persons philosophers political popular possessed present principle reason reform Regicide religion representation republic revenue Revolution Society says scheme sentiments sermon Soame Jenyns sort sovereign spirit thing thought tion true Turgot virtue wealth Whig whilst whole wisdom writings
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 85 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Seite xxv - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Seite 27 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Seite xxvi - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad: But when the planets, In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea! shaking of earth! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture...
Seite 35 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Seite 65 - They have a right to the fruits of their industry; and to the means of making their industry fruitful. They have a right to the acquisitions of their parents; to the nourishment and improvement of their offspring; to instruction in life, and to consolation in death.
Seite 19 - And thereunto the said lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, do, in the name of all the people aforesaid, most humbly and faithfully submit themselves, their heirs and posterities for ever...
Seite 306 - Such are their ideas, such their religion, and such their law. But as to our country, and our race, as long as the well-compacted structure of our church and state, the sanctuary, the holy of holies of that ancient law, defended by reverence, defended by power, a fortress at once and a temple...
Seite 286 - They must respect that property of which they cannot partake. They must labour to obtain what by labour can be obtained ; and when they find, as they commonly do, the success disproportioned to the endeavour, they must be taught their consolation in the final proportions of eternal justice.
Seite 9 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.