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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... forces , the same engines which were employed ( for the destruction of religion , might be employed with equal success for the subversion of government ; and that specious arguments might be used against those things which they , who ...
... forces , the same engines which were employed ( for the destruction of religion , might be employed with equal success for the subversion of government ; and that specious arguments might be used against those things which they , who ...
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... force nature , and the whole order of her system , by a compliance with our pride and folly , to conform to our arti- ficial regulations . It is by a conformity to this method we owe the discovery of the few truths we know , and the ...
... force nature , and the whole order of her system , by a compliance with our pride and folly , to conform to our arti- ficial regulations . It is by a conformity to this method we owe the discovery of the few truths we know , and the ...
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Edmund Burke. consumed the flower of so many kingdoms , and wasted the force of so extensive an empire . I is a cheap calculation to say , that the Persian empire , in its wars against the Greeks and Scythians , threw away at least four ...
Edmund Burke. consumed the flower of so many kingdoms , and wasted the force of so extensive an empire . I is a cheap calculation to say , that the Persian empire , in its wars against the Greeks and Scythians , threw away at least four ...
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... force to prove that it is an insufficient guide to them in the conduct of their lives . But unhappily for us , in proportion as we have deviated from the plain rule of our nature , and turned our reason against itself , in that ...
... force to prove that it is an insufficient guide to them in the conduct of their lives . But unhappily for us , in proportion as we have deviated from the plain rule of our nature , and turned our reason against itself , in that ...
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... force may beat or rob me ; but then it is true , that I am at full liberty to defend myself , or make reprisal by surprise , or by cunning , or by any other way in which I may be superior to him . But in political society , a rich man ...
... force may beat or rob me ; but then it is true , that I am at full liberty to defend myself , or make reprisal by surprise , or by cunning , or by any other way in which I may be superior to him . But in political society , a rich man ...
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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.