Select Works: Reflections on the revolution in France. 1881; copies 2-4, 1888Clarendon Press, 1881 |
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... society . Some- thing of the same kind was prevalent in England ; but it belonged to a narrower class , with narrower motives and meaner ends . From his earliest years Burke had been familiar with the idea of a nation of human savages ...
... society . Some- thing of the same kind was prevalent in England ; but it belonged to a narrower class , with narrower motives and meaner ends . From his earliest years Burke had been familiar with the idea of a nation of human savages ...
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... society . What those who stood by this -established order understood by the term is roughly expressed in Burke's phrase of Treason against property . ' You have too much , I have too little - you have privileges , I have none - your ...
... society . What those who stood by this -established order understood by the term is roughly expressed in Burke's phrase of Treason against property . ' You have too much , I have too little - you have privileges , I have none - your ...
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... society being the protection of civil society , and which be- our persons and security of our comes one of its fundamental property , men in civil society rules , is that no man should be have a right , and indeed are judge in his own ...
... society being the protection of civil society , and which be- our persons and security of our comes one of its fundamental property , men in civil society rules , is that no man should be have a right , and indeed are judge in his own ...
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... society . To be honoured , and even privi- leged , by the laws , opinions , and inveterate usages of our country , ' was with him not only a noble prize to the person who attained it , but a politic institution for the community which ...
... society . To be honoured , and even privi- leged , by the laws , opinions , and inveterate usages of our country , ' was with him not only a noble prize to the person who attained it , but a politic institution for the community which ...
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... Society in France thus rested on a tottering and artificial frame : while in England the frame had gradually and safely accommodated itself to the change of social force . But in the method of Burke every argument in favour of a 1 In ...
... Society in France thus rested on a tottering and artificial frame : while in England the frame had gradually and safely accommodated itself to the change of social force . But in the method of Burke every argument in favour of a 1 In ...
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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...