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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... importance . And I could demon- strate , that they have had the opportunity of doing all this mischief , nay , that they themselves had their origin and growth from that complex form of government which we are wisely taught to look upon ...
... importance . And I could demon- strate , that they have had the opportunity of doing all this mischief , nay , that they themselves had their origin and growth from that complex form of government which we are wisely taught to look upon ...
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... importance to the human understanding ; " Est animorum ingeniorumque nostrorum naturale quoddam quasi pabulum consideratio contemplatioque nature . " If we can direct the lights we derive from such exalted specula- tions , upon the ...
... importance to the human understanding ; " Est animorum ingeniorumque nostrorum naturale quoddam quasi pabulum consideratio contemplatioque nature . " If we can direct the lights we derive from such exalted specula- tions , upon the ...
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... receiving benefits , we cannot but shudder at a power which can confer benefits of such mighty importance . When the prophet David contemplated the wonders of wisdom and H power which are displayed in the economy of man , POWER . 97.
... receiving benefits , we cannot but shudder at a power which can confer benefits of such mighty importance . When the prophet David contemplated the wonders of wisdom and H power which are displayed in the economy of man , POWER . 97.
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... importance in architecture , it is worth inquiring , how far this remark is applicable to building . I think then , that all edifices calcu- lated to produce an idea of the sublime , ought rather to be dark and gloomy , and this for two ...
... importance in architecture , it is worth inquiring , how far this remark is applicable to building . I think then , that all edifices calcu- lated to produce an idea of the sublime , ought rather to be dark and gloomy , and this for two ...
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... importance . It will be just enough to hint , what I dare say many readers have be- fore observed , that when any man proposes new taxes in a country with which he is not personally conversant by resi- dence or office , he ought to lay ...
... importance . It will be just enough to hint , what I dare say many readers have be- fore observed , that when any man proposes new taxes in a country with which he is not personally conversant by resi- dence or office , he ought to lay ...
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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.