The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1John West and O.C. Greenleaf, 1806 - Great Britain |
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... reason to think that he kept any other . Neither do I believe in fact ( unless he meditated this villainy long ago ) that he did or does now possess any clean copy . I never communicated that paper to any one out of the very small ...
... reason to think that he kept any other . Neither do I believe in fact ( unless he meditated this villainy long ago ) that he did or does now possess any clean copy . I never communicated that paper to any one out of the very small ...
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... reason to conceal the design of it any longer . The design was , to shew that , without the exertion of any considerable forces , the same engines which were employed for the destruction of religion , might be employed with equal ...
... reason to conceal the design of it any longer . The design was , to shew that , without the exertion of any considerable forces , the same engines which were employed for the destruction of religion , might be employed with equal ...
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... reason and fitness , and to use the same method of attack by which some men have assaulted revealed religion , we might with as good colour , and with the same success , make the wisdom and power of God in his creation appear to many no ...
... reason and fitness , and to use the same method of attack by which some men have assaulted revealed religion , we might with as good colour , and with the same success , make the wisdom and power of God in his creation appear to many no ...
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... reasons made clear and demonstrative to every individual ? The editor knows that the subject of this letter is not so fully ... reason ; nor would such an abuse have been tolerable even for a few pages , if some un- der - plot of more ...
... reasons made clear and demonstrative to every individual ? The editor knows that the subject of this letter is not so fully ... reason ; nor would such an abuse have been tolerable even for a few pages , if some un- der - plot of more ...
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... reason and from nature alone . This is true of several , but still is by far the majority in the same old state of blindness and slavery ; and much is it to be fear- ed that we shall perpetually relapse , whilst the real produc- tive ...
... reason and from nature alone . This is true of several , but still is by far the majority in the same old state of blindness and slavery ; and much is it to be fear- ed that we shall perpetually relapse , whilst the real produc- tive ...
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Page 109 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes, There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 206 - O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
Page 108 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 316 - It is reconciled in policy ; and politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature ; of which the reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part.
Page 103 - Of the Passion Caused by the Sublime The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that object which employs it.
Page 482 - Be content to bind America by laws of trade; you have always done it. Let this be your reason for binding their trade. Do not burden them by taxes ; you were not used to do so from the beginning. Let this be your reason for not taxing. These are the arguments of states and kingdoms. Leave the rest to the schools; for there only they may be discussed with safety.
Page 105 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 67 - ... a sort of creative power of its own ; either in representing at pleasure the images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses, or in combining those images in a new manner, and according to a different order.
Page 105 - When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes. Every one will be sensible of this who considers how greatly night adds to our dread in all cases of danger, and how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect minds which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings.
Page 420 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.