The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Illustrated in a Series of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches; with a Summary of His LifeE. Moxon, 1845 - 426 Seiten |
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... Perhaps I may have omitted to do so to you , in any formal manner , as not supposing you to have any suspicion of me . I now give you my word and honour that I am not the author of ' Junius , ' and that I know not the author of that ...
... Perhaps I may have omitted to do so to you , in any formal manner , as not supposing you to have any suspicion of me . I now give you my word and honour that I am not the author of ' Junius , ' and that I know not the author of that ...
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... perhaps , never would , recover from the shock it had occasioned . " Owing to a variety of causes , but to nothing more than the sheer weariness of the national mind from the length of the trial , Hastings was acquitted in 1795 , and he ...
... perhaps , never would , recover from the shock it had occasioned . " Owing to a variety of causes , but to nothing more than the sheer weariness of the national mind from the length of the trial , Hastings was acquitted in 1795 , and he ...
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... perhaps tell us they mean to say no more than that some of the king's predecessors have been called to the throne by some sort of choice ; and therefore he owes his crown to the choice of his people . Thus , by a miserable sub- terfuge ...
... perhaps tell us they mean to say no more than that some of the king's predecessors have been called to the throne by some sort of choice ; and therefore he owes his crown to the choice of his people . Thus , by a miserable sub- terfuge ...
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... perhaps impossible , to give limits to the mere abstract competence of the supreme power , such as was exercised by parliament at that time ; but the limits of a moral competence , subjecting , even in powers more indisputably sovereign ...
... perhaps impossible , to give limits to the mere abstract competence of the supreme power , such as was exercised by parliament at that time ; but the limits of a moral competence , subjecting , even in powers more indisputably sovereign ...
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... perhaps , did the sovereign legislature manifest a more tender regard to that fundamental principle of British constitu- tional policy , than at the time of the Revolution , when it deviated from the direct line of hereditary succession ...
... perhaps , did the sovereign legislature manifest a more tender regard to that fundamental principle of British constitu- tional policy , than at the time of the Revolution , when it deviated from the direct line of hereditary succession ...
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Seite 149 - I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy...
Seite 17 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Seite 48 - But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. 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; which he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Seite 355 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Seite 47 - 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.
Seite 411 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Seite 410 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Seite 11 - A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Seite 351 - When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Seite 80 - Sir, I think you must perceive that I am resolved this day to have nothing at all to do with the question of the right of taxation. Some gentlemen startle, but it is true. I put it totally out of the question. It is less than nothing in my consideration.