The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1902 |
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... court of Nero , a person of learning , of unquestioned merit , and of unsuspected loyalty , was put to death for no other reason , than that he had a pedantic countenance which displeased the emperor . This very monster of mankind ...
... court of Nero , a person of learning , of unquestioned merit , and of unsuspected loyalty , was put to death for no other reason , than that he had a pedantic countenance which displeased the emperor . This very monster of mankind ...
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... courts , and two interests ; both very different from the interests of the people . The favourite knows that the ... court . What has been said of the chief , is true of the inferior officers of this species of government ; each .u A ...
... courts , and two interests ; both very different from the interests of the people . The favourite knows that the ... court . What has been said of the chief , is true of the inferior officers of this species of government ; each .u A ...
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... court ; and all services done in the state are looked upon as dangerous to the rulers , whether sultans or senators . The Ostracism at Athens was built upon this principle . The giddy people , whom we have now under consideration ...
... court ; and all services done in the state are looked upon as dangerous to the rulers , whether sultans or senators . The Ostracism at Athens was built upon this principle . The giddy people , whom we have now under consideration ...
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... court to court ; I fly from equity to law , and from law to equity ; equal uncertainty attends me everywhere ; and a mistake in which I had no share , decides at once upon my liberty and property , sending me from the court to a prison ...
... court to court ; I fly from equity to law , and from law to equity ; equal uncertainty attends me everywhere ; and a mistake in which I had no share , decides at once upon my liberty and property , sending me from the court to a prison ...
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... courts are the schools where cruelty , pride , dissimulation , and treachery are studied and taught in the most vicious perfection . This is a point so clear and acknowledged , that if it did not make a neces- sary part of my subject ...
... courts are the schools where cruelty , pride , dissimulation , and treachery are studied and taught in the most vicious perfection . This is a point so clear and acknowledged , that if it did not make a neces- sary part of my subject ...
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Page 512 - Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man. 3*. 6d. Chalmers on the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man. 5*.
Page 460 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the Poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil.
Page 506 - 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 445 - 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 91 - 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...
Page 466 - in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states, that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law, — and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Page 506 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.