The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3F & C. Rivington, 1803 - France |
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... whole wisdom of the wisest among us , without being able to af- fure ourselves , that any wisdom can preferve us from many and great inconveniencies . You know I fpeak of our unhappy conteft with America . I confefs , it is a matter on ...
... whole wisdom of the wisest among us , without being able to af- fure ourselves , that any wisdom can preferve us from many and great inconveniencies . You know I fpeak of our unhappy conteft with America . I confefs , it is a matter on ...
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... whole life amongst you ; if he , who through the eafy gra- dations of acquaintance , friendship , and esteem , has obtained the honour , which feems of itself , naturally and almost infenfibly , to meet with thofe , who , by the even ...
... whole life amongst you ; if he , who through the eafy gra- dations of acquaintance , friendship , and esteem , has obtained the honour , which feems of itself , naturally and almost infenfibly , to meet with thofe , who , by the even ...
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... whole ; where , not local pur- pofes , not local prejudices ought to guide , but the general good , resulting from the general reafon of the whole . You chufe a member indeed ; but when you have chofen him , he is not member of Bristol ...
... whole ; where , not local pur- pofes , not local prejudices ought to guide , but the general good , resulting from the general reafon of the whole . You chufe a member indeed ; but when you have chofen him , he is not member of Bristol ...
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... whole . This , Sir , is , I believe , about the true number . There is no occafion to exaggerate , where plain truth is of fo much weight and importance . But whether I put the present numbers too high or too low , is a matter of little ...
... whole . This , Sir , is , I believe , about the true number . There is no occafion to exaggerate , where plain truth is of fo much weight and importance . But whether I put the present numbers too high or too low , is a matter of little ...
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... whole trade of England to all parts of the world ( the colonies included ) in the year 1704. They are from good vouchers ; the latter period from the accounts on your table , the earlier from an ori ginal manufcript of Davenant , who ...
... whole trade of England to all parts of the world ( the colonies included ) in the year 1704. They are from good vouchers ; the latter period from the accounts on your table , the earlier from an ori ginal manufcript of Davenant , who ...
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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.