The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Band 3F. and C. Rivington, sold also by J. Hatchard, 1801 |
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... matter on which I look down as from a precipice . It is difficult in itself , and it is rendered more intricate by a great variety of plans of conduct . I do not mean to enter into them . I will not suspect a want of good intention in ...
... matter on which I look down as from a precipice . It is difficult in itself , and it is rendered more intricate by a great variety of plans of conduct . I do not mean to enter into them . I will not suspect a want of good intention in ...
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... matter to thofe of my worthy constituents who were with me , and they unanimously ad- vised me not to decline it ... matters I might derive authority and support from the representation of this great commercial city ; they defired me ...
... matter to thofe of my worthy constituents who were with me , and they unanimously ad- vised me not to decline it ... matters I might derive authority and support from the representation of this great commercial city ; they defired me ...
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... matter here . My learned counsel has fupported your cause with his usual ability ; the worthy fheriffs have acted ... matters of difcuffion . I have never asked a question of a voter on the other fide , or supported a doubtful vote on my ...
... matter here . My learned counsel has fupported your cause with his usual ability ; the worthy fheriffs have acted ... matters of difcuffion . I have never asked a question of a voter on the other fide , or supported a doubtful vote on my ...
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... matter of will upon any fide , yours , without queftion , ought to be fuperior . But government and legislation are matters of reafon and judgment , and not of in- clination ; and , what fort of reafon is that , in which the ...
... matter of will upon any fide , yours , without queftion , ought to be fuperior . But government and legislation are matters of reafon and judgment , and not of in- clination ; and , what fort of reafon is that , in which the ...
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... matter of little moment . Such is the ftrength with which population fhoots in that part of the world , that ftate the numbers as high as we will , whilft the difpute continues , the exaggeration ends . Whilft we are difcuffing any ...
... matter of little moment . Such is the ftrength with which population fhoots in that part of the world , that ftate the numbers as high as we will , whilft the difpute continues , the exaggeration ends . Whilft we are difcuffing any ...
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Seite 47 - 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, My next objection is its uncertainty.
Seite 124 - 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. This is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly.
Seite 112 - The Americans will have no interest contrary to the grandeur and glory of England, when they are not oppressed by the weight of it ; and they will rather be inclined to respect the acts of a superintending legislature, when they see them the acts of that power which is itself the security, not the rival, of their secondary importance. In this assurance my mind most perfectly acquiesces, and I confess...
Seite 71 - I cannot proceed with a stern, assured, judicial confidence until I find myself in something more like a judicial character. I must have these hesitations as long as I am compelled to recollect that, in my little reading upon...
Seite 75 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Seite 49 - England, Sir, is a nation which still I hope respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Seite 31 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion; and ever will be so, as long as the world //'endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last, is, let me say, of no mean force in the government of mankind. Genuine simplicity of heart is an healing and cementing principle.
Seite 57 - ... from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up. It has grown with the growth of the people in your colonies, and increased with the increase of their wealth; a spirit, that unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in England, which, however lawful, is not reconcilable to any ideas of liberty, much less with theirs, has kindled this flame that is ready to consume us.
Seite 47 - ... is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence.
Seite 49 - ... whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth ; and this from a great variety of powerful causes...