The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Illustrated in a Series of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches; with a Summary of His Life |
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... humanity in exerting himself to procure pardon for the subordinate agents . About the same time he drew up the heads of the plan for the abolition of the slave - trade . It became impracticable , however , then to bring it forward . The ...
... humanity in exerting himself to procure pardon for the subordinate agents . About the same time he drew up the heads of the plan for the abolition of the slave - trade . It became impracticable , however , then to bring it forward . The ...
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... human endurance or exertion . As often happens when strength had been long overtasked , Burke sank almost at once into the last stage of corporal debility and prostration : his mind , however , shone out in all its lustre even to the ...
... human endurance or exertion . As often happens when strength had been long overtasked , Burke sank almost at once into the last stage of corporal debility and prostration : his mind , however , shone out in all its lustre even to the ...
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... human race , the whole , at one time , is never old , or middle- aged , or young , but , in a condition of unchangeable constancy , moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay , fall , renovation , and progression . Thus , by ...
... human race , the whole , at one time , is never old , or middle- aged , or young , but , in a condition of unchangeable constancy , moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay , fall , renovation , and progression . Thus , by ...
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... manifest to the world . Several gen- tlemen are very desirous of altering the constitution of the house of commons : but they must alter the frame and constitution of human nature itself , before they 40 THE WISDOM AND GENIUS.
... manifest to the world . Several gen- tlemen are very desirous of altering the constitution of the house of commons : but they must alter the frame and constitution of human nature itself , before they 40 THE WISDOM AND GENIUS.
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... human nature itself , before they can so fashion it by any mode of election , that its conduct will not be influenced by reward and punishment , by fame and by disgrace . If these examples take root in the minds of men , what mem- bers ...
... human nature itself , before they can so fashion it by any mode of election , that its conduct will not be influenced by reward and punishment , by fame and by disgrace . If these examples take root in the minds of men , what mem- bers ...
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Page 149 - I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy...
Page 17 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page 48 - But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment; which he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 355 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 47 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Page 411 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Page 410 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 11 - A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Page 351 - When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Page 80 - Sir, I think you must perceive that I am resolved this day to have nothing at all to do with the question of the right of taxation. Some gentlemen startle, but it is true. I put it totally out of the question. It is less than nothing in my consideration.