The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1G. Dearborn, 1835 - English literature |
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... never spoke to each in their lives until they found themselves , they knew not how , pigging together , heads and points , in the same truckle bed . " Against this administration while it lasted , Mr. BURKE directed the artillery of his ...
... never spoke to each in their lives until they found themselves , they knew not how , pigging together , heads and points , in the same truckle bed . " Against this administration while it lasted , Mr. BURKE directed the artillery of his ...
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... never had a clean copy of it but one , which is now in my posses- sion ; I never communicated that , but to the Duke of Portland , from whom I had it back again . But the Duke will set this matter to rights , if in reality there were ...
... never had a clean copy of it but one , which is now in my posses- sion ; I never communicated that , but to the Duke of Portland , from whom I had it back again . But the Duke will set this matter to rights , if in reality there were ...
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... never walk sure , but by being sensible of our blindness . And this we must do , or we do nothing , whenever we examine the result of a reason which is not our own . Even in matters which are , as it were , just within our reach , what ...
... never walk sure , but by being sensible of our blindness . And this we must do , or we do nothing , whenever we examine the result of a reason which is not our own . Even in matters which are , as it were , just within our reach , what ...
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... never changes its maxims ; a despotism , which is this day horrible to a supreme degree , by the caprice natural to the heart of man , may , by the same caprice otherwise exerted , be as lovely the next ; in a succession , it is ...
... never changes its maxims ; a despotism , which is this day horrible to a supreme degree , by the caprice natural to the heart of man , may , by the same caprice otherwise exerted , be as lovely the next ; in a succession , it is ...
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... never formed , though they were taken altogether , the thousandth part of the habitable globe ; the freemen in these states were never the twentieth part of the people , and the time they subsisted is scarce any thing in that immense ...
... never formed , though they were taken altogether , the thousandth part of the habitable globe ; the freemen in these states were never the twentieth part of the people , and the time they subsisted is scarce any thing in that immense ...
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Page xii - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
Page 479 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Page 246 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Page 246 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 488 - 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.
Page 226 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Page xxix - Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 478 - 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.
Page 228 - Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government. . Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution ; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system.
Page 219 - 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. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs ; and, above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own.