The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3F & C. Rivington, 1803 - France |
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... empire , extended by our virtue and our fortune to the fartheft limits of the east and of the weft . All these wide - fpread interests must be confidered ; must be compared ; must be reconciled if poffible . We are members for a free ...
... empire , extended by our virtue and our fortune to the fartheft limits of the east and of the weft . All these wide - fpread interests must be confidered ; must be compared ; must be reconciled if poffible . We are members for a free ...
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... empire and our conftitu- tion . A conftitution made up of balanced powers must ever be a critical thing . As fuch I mean to touch that part of it which comes within my reach . I know my inability , and I wish for fup- port from every ...
... empire and our conftitu- tion . A conftitution made up of balanced powers must ever be a critical thing . As fuch I mean to touch that part of it which comes within my reach . I know my inability , and I wish for fup- port from every ...
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... fixed ideas , concerning the general policy of the British empire . Something of this fort seemed to be indifpenfable ; in order , amidft fo vaft a fluctua- tion of paffions and opinions , to concenter my thoughts tion 26 SPEECH ON.
... fixed ideas , concerning the general policy of the British empire . Something of this fort seemed to be indifpenfable ; in order , amidft fo vaft a fluctua- tion of paffions and opinions , to concenter my thoughts tion 26 SPEECH ON.
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... empire fo great and so distracted as ours , is , merely in the attempt , an undertaking that would ennoble the flights of the higheft genius , and obtain pardon for the efforts of the meaneft understanding . Struggling a good while with ...
... empire fo great and so distracted as ours , is , merely in the attempt , an undertaking that would ennoble the flights of the higheft genius , and obtain pardon for the efforts of the meaneft understanding . Struggling a good while with ...
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... empire ; not peace to depend on the juri- dical determination of perplexing questions ; or the precise marking the fhadowy boundaries of a complex government . It is fimple peace ; fought in its natural courfe , and in its ordinary ...
... empire ; not peace to depend on the juri- dical determination of perplexing questions ; or the precise marking the fhadowy boundaries of a complex government . It is fimple peace ; fought in its natural courfe , and in its ordinary ...
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Page 126 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us, a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Page 49 - England, Sir, is a nation which still, I hope, respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Page 124 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly.
Page 49 - ... whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth ; and this from a great variety of powerful causes...
Page 75 - 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 380 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the...
Page 358 - Applaud us when we run; console us when we fall; cheer us when we recover; but let us pass on — for God's sake let us pass on.
Page 86 - With a preamble stating the entire and perfect rights of the crown of England, it gave to the Welsh all the rights and privileges of English subjects. A political order was established; the military power gave way to the civil; the marches were turned into counties. But that a nation should have a right to English liberties, and yet no share at all in the fundamental security of these liberties, the grant of their own property...
Page 52 - If anything were wanting to this necessary operation of the form of government, religion would have given it a complete effect. Religion, always a principle of energy, in this new people is no way worn out or impaired; and their mode of professing it is also one main cause of this free spirit. The people are Protestants, and of that kind which is the most adverse to all implicit submission of mind and opinion.
Page 110 - 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.