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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... honour or safety , and could bear no advice that tended to reform them . At this time truth became offensive to those lords , the people , and most highly dangerous to the speaker . The orators no longer ascended the rostrum , but to ...
... honour or safety , and could bear no advice that tended to reform them . At this time truth became offensive to those lords , the people , and most highly dangerous to the speaker . The orators no longer ascended the rostrum , but to ...
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... honour , the oblivion of all duty to our country , and the most abandon- ed public prostitution , are preferable to the more glaring and violent effects of faction , I will not presume to determine . Sure I am that they are very great ...
... honour , the oblivion of all duty to our country , and the most abandon- ed public prostitution , are preferable to the more glaring and violent effects of faction , I will not presume to determine . Sure I am that they are very great ...
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... honour from that profession . Before we finish our examination of artificial society , I shall lead your Lordship into a closer consideration of the re- lations which it gives birth to , and the benefits , if such they are , which ...
... honour from that profession . Before we finish our examination of artificial society , I shall lead your Lordship into a closer consideration of the re- lations which it gives birth to , and the benefits , if such they are , which ...
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... honours , wealth , titles , and even the loss of one's country , is nothing in balance with so great an advantage . Let us now view the other species of the rich , those who devote their time and fortunes to idleness and pleasure . How ...
... honours , wealth , titles , and even the loss of one's country , is nothing in balance with so great an advantage . Let us now view the other species of the rich , those who devote their time and fortunes to idleness and pleasure . How ...
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... honour of the Creator , as subversive of human reason , and productive of infinitely more mischief to the human race . If pretended revelations have caused wars where they were opposed , and slavery where they were received , the ...
... honour of the Creator , as subversive of human reason , and productive of infinitely more mischief to the human race . If pretended revelations have caused wars where they were opposed , and slavery where they were received , the ...
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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.