The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Band 1Harper & Brothers, 1860 |
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... attend only to the noise of our discussions ; we read only the pro- ductions of party ; and how many wise men and enlightened citizens remain in silence ! We can no longer judge for ourselves , and a foreign observer only can decide for ...
... attend only to the noise of our discussions ; we read only the pro- ductions of party ; and how many wise men and enlightened citizens remain in silence ! We can no longer judge for ourselves , and a foreign observer only can decide for ...
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... attend the first rage of conquest . It will therefore be very reason- able to allow on their account as much as , added to the losses of the conqueror , may amount to a million of deaths , and then we shall see this conqueror , the ...
... attend the first rage of conquest . It will therefore be very reason- able to allow on their account as much as , added to the losses of the conqueror , may amount to a million of deaths , and then we shall see this conqueror , the ...
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... attend- ed by an almost entire extirpation of all the former inhabitants . Their own civil wars , and those with their petty neighbours , con- sumed vast multitudes almost every year for several centuries ; and the irruptions of the ...
... attend- ed by an almost entire extirpation of all the former inhabitants . Their own civil wars , and those with their petty neighbours , con- sumed vast multitudes almost every year for several centuries ; and the irruptions of the ...
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... attend the wasting of kingdoms , and sacking of cities . But I do not write to the vulgar , nor to that which only governs the vulgar , their passions . I go upon a naked and moderate calculation , just ... attended 18 A VINDICATION OF.
... attend the wasting of kingdoms , and sacking of cities . But I do not write to the vulgar , nor to that which only governs the vulgar , their passions . I go upon a naked and moderate calculation , just ... attended 18 A VINDICATION OF.
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With a Memoir Edmund Burke. broils are so frequent , so cruel , and attended with consequences so deplorable . In a state of nature , it had been impossible to find a number of men , sufficient for such slaughters , agreed in the same ...
With a Memoir Edmund Burke. broils are so frequent , so cruel , and attended with consequences so deplorable . In a state of nature , it had been impossible to find a number of men , sufficient for such slaughters , agreed in the same ...
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Seite 494 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection . 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 312 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Seite 223 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
Seite 395 - ... criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, 'and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Seite 466 - 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, the whole at one time is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor...
Seite 217 - 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. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol,...
Seite 477 - 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. Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.
Seite 494 - Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure; but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Seite 465 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper, and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Seite 245 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians, who have no place among us ; a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.