The Wisdom of Burke: Extracts from His Speeches and WritingsJohn Murray, 1886 - 261 Seiten |
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... the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put to- gether ; but it is not apt , except in persons very happily born , to open and to liberalise the mind exactly in the same proportion.- Speech on Amer 14 THE WISDOM OF.
... the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put to- gether ; but it is not apt , except in persons very happily born , to open and to liberalise the mind exactly in the same proportion.- Speech on Amer 14 THE WISDOM OF.
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... person to tell us his story , morning and evening , but for one twelvemonth , and he will become our master . - Thoughts on French Affairs . The press in reality has made every government , in its spirit , almost democratic . -Second ...
... person to tell us his story , morning and evening , but for one twelvemonth , and he will become our master . - Thoughts on French Affairs . The press in reality has made every government , in its spirit , almost democratic . -Second ...
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... person would rather doubt his own judgment than condemn his species . He would say , I have observed without attention , or judged upon erroneous maxims ; I trusted to profession when I ought to have attended to conduct . Such a man ...
... person would rather doubt his own judgment than condemn his species . He would say , I have observed without attention , or judged upon erroneous maxims ; I trusted to profession when I ought to have attended to conduct . Such a man ...
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... persons who administer it , all originate from the people . A popular origin cannot therefore be the characteristical distinction of a popular re- presentative . This belongs equally to all parts of government , and in all forms . The ...
... persons who administer it , all originate from the people . A popular origin cannot therefore be the characteristical distinction of a popular re- presentative . This belongs equally to all parts of government , and in all forms . The ...
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... person of stability . I am to look , indeed , to your opinions ; but to such opinions as you and I must have five years hence . I was not to look to the flash of the day . I knew that you chose me in my place , along with others , to be ...
... person of stability . I am to look , indeed , to your opinions ; but to such opinions as you and I must have five years hence . I was not to look to the flash of the day . I knew that you chose me in my place , along with others , to be ...
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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.