The Public and Domestic Life of the Right Hon. Edmund BurkeN. Cooke, 1854 - 316 Seiten |
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... knowledge of the man himself arises doubtless from there having been really no com- plete and readable account of the life of Burke . The more extensive memoirs of him are mere disjointed , discursive , and confusing compilations ...
... knowledge of the man himself arises doubtless from there having been really no com- plete and readable account of the life of Burke . The more extensive memoirs of him are mere disjointed , discursive , and confusing compilations ...
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... author's estimation and admiration of the character and doctrine of Edmund Burke had led him already to hope , -that no effort would prove entirely vain which sought to aid in extending the knowledge of what was said and done by a master.
... author's estimation and admiration of the character and doctrine of Edmund Burke had led him already to hope , -that no effort would prove entirely vain which sought to aid in extending the knowledge of what was said and done by a master.
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Peter Burke. knowledge of what was said and done by a master - spirit , whose reason and eloquence , the more their influence should expand , the more would they conduce to the public and general good . If , therefore , this production ...
Peter Burke. knowledge of what was said and done by a master - spirit , whose reason and eloquence , the more their influence should expand , the more would they conduce to the public and general good . If , therefore , this production ...
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... knowledge which was to throw such power and prophetic force into his rea- soning and his language . After a residence , on and off , of five years at Castledown Roche , where he picked up the rudiments of Latin and other juvenile ...
... knowledge which was to throw such power and prophetic force into his rea- soning and his language . After a residence , on and off , of five years at Castledown Roche , where he picked up the rudiments of Latin and other juvenile ...
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... knowledge of him . The associations and amities which Burke made at this school remained dear to him through life . One friend of this period was Abraham Shackleton's son , Richard Shackleton , who , as above stated , succeeded his ...
... knowledge of him . The associations and amities which Burke made at this school remained dear to him through life . One friend of this period was Abraham Shackleton's son , Richard Shackleton , who , as above stated , succeeded his ...
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Seite 311 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ; Tho' equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot too cool; for a drudge disobedient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Seite 83 - 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.
Seite 83 - They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Seite 248 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. 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 88 - Is it not the same virtue which does everything for us here in England ? Do you imagine then, that it is the land tax act which raises your revenue ? that it is the annual vote in the committee of supply, which gives you your army ? or that it is the mutiny bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline ? No ! surely no ! It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Seite 94 - He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Seite 87 - ... 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 177 - ... every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered : others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this...
Seite 178 - Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One dead uniform silence reigned over the whole region.
Seite 289 - I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my Lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard season I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world.