The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 6Little, Brown,, 1866 - Great Britain |
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Page 26
... sense in which she loses her preponderance : that is , she is no longer preponderant against the countries she has conquered . They are part of herself . But I beg the author to keep his eyes fixed on the scales for a moment longer ...
... sense in which she loses her preponderance : that is , she is no longer preponderant against the countries she has conquered . They are part of herself . But I beg the author to keep his eyes fixed on the scales for a moment longer ...
Page 27
... blackest hours of the dismay , defeat , and calamity of all civilized nations . They have but one fault , - that they are directly contrary to the common sense and common feeling of mankind . If I had but one LETTER IV . 27.
... blackest hours of the dismay , defeat , and calamity of all civilized nations . They have but one fault , - that they are directly contrary to the common sense and common feeling of mankind . If I had but one LETTER IV . 27.
Page 42
... sense are not enlightened , but con- founded ; and there is no refuge for astonished and affrighted virtue , but being annihilated in humility and submission , sinking into a silent adoration of the inscrutable dispensations of ...
... sense are not enlightened , but con- founded ; and there is no refuge for astonished and affrighted virtue , but being annihilated in humility and submission , sinking into a silent adoration of the inscrutable dispensations of ...
Page 42
... sense are not enlightened , but con- founded ; and there is no refuge for astonished and affrighted virtue , but being annihilated in humility and submission , sinking into a silent adoration of the inscrutable dispensations of ...
... sense are not enlightened , but con- founded ; and there is no refuge for astonished and affrighted virtue , but being annihilated in humility and submission , sinking into a silent adoration of the inscrutable dispensations of ...
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... sense , in all affairs , public and private , great and small , even down to the minutest and most rec- ondite parts of their household concerns . The helots of Laconia , the regardants to the manor in Russia and in Poland , even the ...
... sense , in all affairs , public and private , great and small , even down to the minutest and most rec- ondite parts of their household concerns . The helots of Laconia , the regardants to the manor in Russia and in Poland , even the ...
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Page 49 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence.
Page 347 - THE Roman Catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland : or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles the Second...
Page 324 - It would be hard to point out any error more truly subversive of all the order and beauty, of all the peace and happiness, of human society, than the position, that any body of men have a right to make what laws they please ; or that laws can derive any authority from their institution merely and independent of the quality of the subject-matter. No arguments of policy, reason of state, or preservation of the constitution, can be pleaded in favour of such a practice.
Page 64 - As fine as daubers' hands can make it, In hopes that strangers may mistake it ; We think it both a shame and sin To quit the good old Angel Inn.
Page 324 - VI. 21 should bo themselves the chief sufferers by it; because it would be made against the principle of a superior law, which it is not in the power of any community, or of the whole race of man, to alter...
Page 381 - ... strength, which, to that hour, Ireland was never so happy as to enjoy. My sanguine hopes are blasted, and I must consign my feelings, on that terrible disappointment, to the same patience in which I have been obliged to bury the vexation I suffered on the defeat of the other great, just, and honorable causes in which I have had some share ; and which have given more of dignity, than of peace and advantage, to a long laborious life.
Page 180 - ... it was not because a positive law authorized what was then done, but because the freedom and safety of the subject, the origin and cause of all laws, required a proceeding paramount and superior to them. At that ever memorable and instructive period, the letter of the law was superseded in favor of the substance of liberty.
Page 348 - ... provided also, that no person whatsoever shall have or enjoy the benefit of this article, that shall neglect or refuse to take the oath of allegiance, made by act of parliament in England, in the first year of the reign of their present majesties, when thereunto required.
Page 223 - Government influence ; that the business of a minister, or of those who acted as such, had been still further to contract the narrowness of men's ideas, to confirm inveterate prejudices, to inflame vulgar passions, and to abet all sorts of popular absurdities...
Page 178 - That the establishment of such a power in America will utterly ruin our finances (though its certain effect) is the smallest part of our concern. It will become an apt, powerful, and certain engine for the destruction of our freedom here.