The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 2G. Dearborn, 1835 - English literature |
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... persons should be disposed to estimate the merit of a composition upon the standard of their own ability . In their critical censure , though Mr. Burke may find himself humbled by it as a writer , as a man , and as an Englishman , he ...
... persons should be disposed to estimate the merit of a composition upon the standard of their own ability . In their critical censure , though Mr. Burke may find himself humbled by it as a writer , as a man , and as an Englishman , he ...
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... persons in that description , it is to be considered only as a peculiarity which they indulge to their own private ... person amongst them can be of the ideas of his own party . The French revolution can have no con- nexion with the ...
... persons in that description , it is to be considered only as a peculiarity which they indulge to their own private ... person amongst them can be of the ideas of his own party . The French revolution can have no con- nexion with the ...
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... persons . Their good nature I am the last man in the world to dispute . It only shews that they are not sufficiently in- formed , or sufficiently considerate . When they come to reflect seriously on the transac- tion , they will think ...
... persons . Their good nature I am the last man in the world to dispute . It only shews that they are not sufficiently in- formed , or sufficiently considerate . When they come to reflect seriously on the transac- tion , they will think ...
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... persons of sober minds from engaging in any reform ; nor how the worst enemies to the liberty of the subject could contrive any method more fit to bring all correctives on the power of the crown into suspicion and disrepute . If , say ...
... persons of sober minds from engaging in any reform ; nor how the worst enemies to the liberty of the subject could contrive any method more fit to bring all correctives on the power of the crown into suspicion and disrepute . If , say ...
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... persons are responsible ? These were the topics of Mr. Burke's proposed remonstrance ; all of which topics suppose the existence and mutual relation of our three estates ; as well as the relation of the East India company to the crown ...
... persons are responsible ? These were the topics of Mr. Burke's proposed remonstrance ; all of which topics suppose the existence and mutual relation of our three estates ; as well as the relation of the East India company to the crown ...
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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.