The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 2G. Dearborn, 1835 - English literature |
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... manner more to their satisfaction , than he shall slide down , in silence and obscurity , the slope of his declining days , is best known to him who mea- sures out years , and days , and fortunes . The quality of the sentence does not ...
... manner more to their satisfaction , than he shall slide down , in silence and obscurity , the slope of his declining days , is best known to him who mea- sures out years , and days , and fortunes . The quality of the sentence does not ...
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... manner they mean to conduct the seditions and wars they have planned against their neighbours for the sake of putting themselves at the head of a confede- ration of republics as wild and as mischievous as their own . He would have shewn ...
... manner they mean to conduct the seditions and wars they have planned against their neighbours for the sake of putting themselves at the head of a confede- ration of republics as wild and as mischievous as their own . He would have shewn ...
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... manners , or morals , and which so far from respecting the general sense of mankind , inso- lently endeavours to alter ... manner , as when the venerable Galba , with all his faults and errors , was murdered by a revolted mercenary sol ...
... manners , or morals , and which so far from respecting the general sense of mankind , inso- lently endeavours to alter ... manner , as when the venerable Galba , with all his faults and errors , was murdered by a revolted mercenary sol ...
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... manner , and on that occasion . The reforms in representation , and the bills for shortening the duration of parliaments , he uniformly and steadily opposed for many years together , in contradiction to many of his best friends . These ...
... manner , and on that occasion . The reforms in representation , and the bills for shortening the duration of parliaments , he uniformly and steadily opposed for many years together , in contradiction to many of his best friends . These ...
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... manner these things have been al- ways considered by our ancestors . There are some indeed who have the art of turning the very acts of parliament which were made for se- curing the hereditary succession in the present royal family , by ...
... manner these things have been al- ways considered by our ancestors . There are some indeed who have the art of turning the very acts of parliament which were made for se- curing the hereditary succession in the present royal family , by ...
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Page 84 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 205 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Page 205 - I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me; they who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors.
Page 227 - Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two others, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Page 467 - Because a nation is not an idea only of local extent, and individual momentary aggregation; but it is an idea of continuity, which extends in time as well as in numbers and in space.
Page 205 - 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.
Page 448 - And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
Page 41 - ... view of the wide-spread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society \ To have leisure to read, to reflect, to converse ; To be enabled to draw the court and attention of the wise and learned wherever they are to be found ;, — To be habituated in armies to command and to obey ; To be taught to •despise danger in the pursuit of...
Page 8 - When that nameless thing which has been lately set up in France was described as " the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any time or country...
Page 41 - The state of civil society which necessarily generates this aristocracy, is a state of nature ; and much more truly so than a savage and incoherent mode of life. For man is by nature reasonable, and he is never perfectly in his natural state but when he is placed where reason may be best cultivated, and most predominates. Art is man's nature. We are as much at least in a state of nature in formed manhood, as in immature and helpless infancy.