The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Band 1G. Dearborn, 1835 |
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... look- ing with surprise to the mutations which the professors of the new philosophy were , with surprising dexterity , bringing about from day to day , at Paris , the pene- trating mind of our illustrious statesman was engaged in ...
... look- ing with surprise to the mutations which the professors of the new philosophy were , with surprising dexterity , bringing about from day to day , at Paris , the pene- trating mind of our illustrious statesman was engaged in ...
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... look back , with a mixture of pity and holy awe , to the wizard himself , who having lately broken his wand in a start of phrenzy , has shortened the term of his sorceries ; and of drugs so potent to ' bathe the spirits in delight , ' I ...
... look back , with a mixture of pity and holy awe , to the wizard himself , who having lately broken his wand in a start of phrenzy , has shortened the term of his sorceries ; and of drugs so potent to ' bathe the spirits in delight , ' I ...
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... look upon as so great a bles- sing . Revolve , my Lord , our history from the conquest . We scarce ever had a prince , who by fraud , or violence , had not made some in- fringement on the constitution . We scarce ever had a parliament ...
... look upon as so great a bles- sing . Revolve , my Lord , our history from the conquest . We scarce ever had a prince , who by fraud , or violence , had not made some in- fringement on the constitution . We scarce ever had a parliament ...
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... look with contempt on what he admired at first ; not that he admired it even then for its unlikeness to a man , but for that general though inaccurate resemblance which it bore to the human figure . What he admired at different times in ...
... look with contempt on what he admired at first ; not that he admired it even then for its unlikeness to a man , but for that general though inaccurate resemblance which it bore to the human figure . What he admired at different times in ...
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... look on any thing as trifling , or contemptible , that may be dangerous . There are many animals , who though far from being large , are yet capable of raising ideas of the sublime , because they are considered as objects of ter- rour ...
... look on any thing as trifling , or contemptible , that may be dangerous . There are many animals , who though far from being large , are yet capable of raising ideas of the sublime , because they are considered as objects of ter- rour ...
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Seite xii - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
Seite 479 - 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 246 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Seite 246 - 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.
Seite 488 - As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Seite 226 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Seite xxix - Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Seite 478 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Seite 228 - Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government. . Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution ; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system.
Seite 219 - 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. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs ; and, above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own.