The Wisdom of Burke: Extracts from His Speeches and WritingsJohn Murray, 1886 - 261 Seiten |
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... conduct , and the government of men , to which no age is a stranger . Many passages remarkable only for their bril- liant rhetoric or splendour of metaphor , and which are already well known , have been omitted from this collection ...
... conduct , and the government of men , to which no age is a stranger . Many passages remarkable only for their bril- liant rhetoric or splendour of metaphor , and which are already well known , have been omitted from this collection ...
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... on the Conduct of the Minority Letter to W. Eliot , Esq . Thoughts on Scarcity . Letter to W. Smith , Esq . 99 a Noble Lord 1792 1793 1795 1795 1795 1795 1795 1796 LIST OF POLITICAL SPEECHES , ETC. xi First Letter on.
... on the Conduct of the Minority Letter to W. Eliot , Esq . Thoughts on Scarcity . Letter to W. Smith , Esq . 99 a Noble Lord 1792 1793 1795 1795 1795 1795 1795 1796 LIST OF POLITICAL SPEECHES , ETC. xi First Letter on.
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... conduct . Such a man will grow wise , not malignant , by his acquaintance with the world . But he that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one . - Letter to Sheriffs of Bristol ...
... conduct . Such a man will grow wise , not malignant , by his acquaintance with the world . But he that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one . - Letter to Sheriffs of Bristol ...
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... and miserable in order to render others contemptible and wretched . If you and I find our talents not of the great and ruling kind , our conduct , at least , is conformable to our faculties . No man's No life 24 THE WISDOM OF.
... and miserable in order to render others contemptible and wretched . If you and I find our talents not of the great and ruling kind , our conduct , at least , is conformable to our faculties . No man's No life 24 THE WISDOM OF.
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... conduct recommended only by conscience and glory . A large , liberal , and prospective view of the interests of states passes with them for romance ; and the principles that recommend it , for the wanderings of a disor- dered ...
... conduct recommended only by conscience and glory . A large , liberal , and prospective view of the interests of states passes with them for romance ; and the principles that recommend it , for the wanderings of a disor- dered ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abstract Acts of Uniformity America amongst Assembly authority become cause choice Church circumstances civil society commonwealth conduct consider constitution corruption danger Discontents disposition Dissenters duty EDMUND BURKE England establishment everything evil exist France freedom French Affairs gentlemen give glory habits happiness honour House of Commons human idea interest Ireland JACOBINISM justice kind Langrishe Letter on Reg liberty mankind manners means Member of Nat ment metaphysically mind monarchy moral nation nature never Noble Lord object Old Whigs opinion Parliament parties passions Peace permanent political Popery Laws popular prejudice presumption principles prudence reason Reflect reformation Regicide religion render restraint ruin secure sedition Sheriffs of Bristol sort speculation Speech at Guildhall Speech on Concil spirit statesman things Thoughts on Pres tion toleration true truth turb Unitarians vice virtue vulgar wealth whilst whole wisdom wise
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 149 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Seite 150 - All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.
Seite 150 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
Seite 110 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties ; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections ; keeping inseparable, and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.
Seite 51 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should be frequently thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Seite 29 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you.
Seite 28 - 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.
Seite 97 - 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.
Seite 119 - Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites...
Seite 51 - Government is not made in virtue of natural rights, which may and do exist in total independence of it; and exist in much greater clearness, and in a much greater degree of abstract perfection : but their abstract perfection is their practical defect.