A Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. at the Guildhall, in Bristol: Previous to the Late Election in that City Upon Certain Points Relative to His Parliamentary ConductJ. Dodsley, 1780 - 68 pages |
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... wish that I should retire , I fhall not confider that advice as a cen- fure upon my conduct , or an alteration in your fentiments ; but as a rational fubmiffion to the circumstances of affairs . If , on the contrary , you should think ...
... wish that I should retire , I fhall not confider that advice as a cen- fure upon my conduct , or an alteration in your fentiments ; but as a rational fubmiffion to the circumstances of affairs . If , on the contrary , you should think ...
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... wish , undoubtedly ( if idle wishes were not the most idle of all things ) to make every part of my conduct agreeable to every one of my constituents . But in fo great a city , and fo greatly divided as this , it is weak to expect it ...
... wish , undoubtedly ( if idle wishes were not the most idle of all things ) to make every part of my conduct agreeable to every one of my constituents . But in fo great a city , and fo greatly divided as this , it is weak to expect it ...
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... wish to have the leaft appearance of infulting you with that fhew of fuperiority , which , though it may not be affumed , is gene- rally fufpected in a time of calamity , from thofe whofe previous warnings have been defpifed . I could ...
... wish to have the leaft appearance of infulting you with that fhew of fuperiority , which , though it may not be affumed , is gene- rally fufpected in a time of calamity , from thofe whofe previous warnings have been defpifed . I could ...
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... wishes for the place of my birth . But the sphere of my duties is my true country . It was , as a man attached to your interefts , and zealous for the confervation of your power and dignity , that I acted on that occafion , and on all ...
... wishes for the place of my birth . But the sphere of my duties is my true country . It was , as a man attached to your interefts , and zealous for the confervation of your power and dignity , that I acted on that occafion , and on all ...
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... And thus this act , loaded with the double injuftice of two parties , neither of whom intended to pass , what they hoped the other would be perfuaded to reject , 5 - went went through the legislature , contrary to the real wish [ 31 ]
... And thus this act , loaded with the double injuftice of two parties , neither of whom intended to pass , what they hoped the other would be perfuaded to reject , 5 - went went through the legislature , contrary to the real wish [ 31 ]
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Page 64 - No! the charges against me are all of one kind, that I have pushed the principles of general justice and benevolence too far; further than a cautious policy would warrant; and further than the opinions of many would go along with me. — In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress — I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted.
Page 23 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 23 - ... and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity.
Page 27 - Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool. As little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts by imposing on the understandings, of the people. At every step of my progress in life, (for in every step was I traversed and opposed,) and at every turnpike I met, I was...
Page 63 - If I have had my share in any measure giving quiet to private property and private conscience ; if by my vote I have aided in securing to families the best possession, peace ; if I have joined in reconciling kings to their subjects, and subjects to their prince ; if I have assisted to loosen the foreign holdings of the citizen, and taught him to look for his protection to the laws of his country, and for his comfort to the...
Page 3 - ... in men of business, a degenerate and inglorious sloth, has made him flag and languish in his course ? This is the object of our inquiry.
Page 56 - I have no idea of a liberty unconnected with honesty and justice. Nor do I believe, that any good constitutions of government or of freedom, can find it necessary for their security to doom any part of the people to a permanent slavery.
Page 52 - ... rights; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order, for every kind and every quality of property and of dignity...
Page 67 - Reafon, would he fkip and play ,? " Pleas'd to the laft, he crops the flow'ry " food, " And licks the hand juft rais'd to fhed his
Page 49 - ... world. This is the appetite but of a few. It is a luxury, it is a privilege, it is an indulgence for those who are at their ease. But we are all of us made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink from pain and poverty and disease. It is an instinct; and under the direction of reason, instinct is always in the right.