Burke, Select Works: Reflections on the revolution in France. 1881Clarendon Press, 1881 |
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... question depends only in a small degree on grounds which demand or justify such a mode of treatment . To condemn all Revolutions is monstrous . To say categorically that the French Revolution was absolutely a good thing or a bad thing ...
... question depends only in a small degree on grounds which demand or justify such a mode of treatment . To condemn all Revolutions is monstrous . To say categorically that the French Revolution was absolutely a good thing or a bad thing ...
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... question concerning them . Whilst he opposes his defence on the part where the attack is made , he presumes that for his regard to the just rights of all the rest , he has credit in every candid mind . ' Burke's overstrained reverence ...
... question concerning them . Whilst he opposes his defence on the part where the attack is made , he presumes that for his regard to the just rights of all the rest , he has credit in every candid mind . ' Burke's overstrained reverence ...
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... question of how far reform was admissible , and at what point it degenerated into innovation , coincides with that of Bacon and Hale , rather than with that of Coke and Eldon . Conceiving the English nation as a four - square fabric sup ...
... question of how far reform was admissible , and at what point it degenerated into innovation , coincides with that of Bacon and Hale , rather than with that of Coke and Eldon . Conceiving the English nation as a four - square fabric sup ...
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... question which he treats at some length , and which concerned England far less than it concerned France . The Church question , which in different shapes has ever since the French Revolution vexed the whole Christian world , had been ...
... question which he treats at some length , and which concerned England far less than it concerned France . The Church question , which in different shapes has ever since the French Revolution vexed the whole Christian world , had been ...
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... question of the great political principle involved in the present volume the reader may safely take it for granted that it was neither true in itself nor natural to Burke , who was employing it merely for purposes of what he believed to ...
... question of the great political principle involved in the present volume the reader may safely take it for granted that it was neither true in itself nor natural to Burke , who was employing it merely for purposes of what he believed to ...
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Seite 89 - 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 89 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Seite xxix - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Seite 70 - 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 13 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Seite 39 - 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...
Seite 114 - 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. Each contract of each particular State is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical...
Seite 39 - Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
Seite 114 - 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 113 - 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. It is to be looked on with other reverence; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary...