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... Burke to the Sheriffs of Bristol , on the Affairs of America Two Letters from Mr. Burke to Gentlemen of the City of Bristol , on the Bill depending in Parliament relative to the Trade of Ireland - - Speech on presenting to the House of ...
... Burke to the Sheriffs of Bristol , on the Affairs of America Two Letters from Mr. Burke to Gentlemen of the City of Bristol , on the Bill depending in Parliament relative to the Trade of Ireland - - Speech on presenting to the House of ...
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... Burke is identified , and in which he acted a part so conspicuous ? Their proximity to us in point of time - their magnitude and their overwhelming influence on the present state of almost all civilized nations , alike tend to move us ...
... Burke is identified , and in which he acted a part so conspicuous ? Their proximity to us in point of time - their magnitude and their overwhelming influence on the present state of almost all civilized nations , alike tend to move us ...
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With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds Edmund Burke. Burke was one of the few who could dispense with pedigrees and heralds ; he was ennobled by genius . His works form his best emblazonry ...
With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds Edmund Burke. Burke was one of the few who could dispense with pedigrees and heralds ; he was ennobled by genius . His works form his best emblazonry ...
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... Burke owed nothing but the sage advice , that multifarious reading would be more advantageous to him than a sedulous attention to any particular pursuit ; advice , which the excursiveness of Burke's mind rendered perfectly unnecessary ...
... Burke owed nothing but the sage advice , that multifarious reading would be more advantageous to him than a sedulous attention to any particular pursuit ; advice , which the excursiveness of Burke's mind rendered perfectly unnecessary ...
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... Burke refuted his antagonist by the very same species of argument , which he afterwards so successfully em- ployed against Bolingbroke the reductio ad absurdum . He ironically adopted the pre- mises of his opponent , and then convicted ...
... Burke refuted his antagonist by the very same species of argument , which he afterwards so successfully em- ployed against Bolingbroke the reductio ad absurdum . He ironically adopted the pre- mises of his opponent , and then convicted ...
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Page 186 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page liv - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we give and take; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others ; and, we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Page lxvi - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
Page 180 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 204 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire, and have made the most extensive and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Page 332 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Page 188 - Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire; and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown. In large bodies, the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities. Nature has said it. The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and...
Page liii - 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.
Page liii - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Page 332 - When at length Hyder Ali found, that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty, and no signature, could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind.