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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... persons have thought that the advantages of the state of nature ought to have been more fully displayed . This had undoubtedly been a very ample subject for declamation ; but they do not consider the character of the piece . The writers ...
... persons have thought that the advantages of the state of nature ought to have been more fully displayed . This had undoubtedly been a very ample subject for declamation ; but they do not consider the character of the piece . The writers ...
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... persons to form one family ; he therefore judged that he would find his account proportionably in an union of many families into one body politic . And as nature has formed no bond of union to hold them together , he supplied this ...
... persons to form one family ; he therefore judged that he would find his account proportionably in an union of many families into one body politic . And as nature has formed no bond of union to hold them together , he supplied this ...
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... persons concerned , are not taken into the account . These wars , I mean those called the Punic wars , could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very ...
... persons concerned , are not taken into the account . These wars , I mean those called the Punic wars , could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very ...
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... person finds , that , let the want , misery , and indi- gence of his subjects be what they will , he can yet possess abundantly of everything to gratify his most insatiable wishes . He does more . He finds that these gratifications ...
... person finds , that , let the want , misery , and indi- gence of his subjects be what they will , he can yet possess abundantly of everything to gratify his most insatiable wishes . He does more . He finds that these gratifications ...
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... persons . For the gross of the people ; they are considered as a mere herd of cattle ; and really in a little time become no better ; all principle of honest pride , all sense of the dignity of their nature , is lost in their slavery ...
... persons . For the gross of the people ; they are considered as a mere herd of cattle ; and really in a little time become no better ; all principle of honest pride , all sense of the dignity of their nature , is lost in their slavery ...
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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.