Memoirs of the right honourable Edmund Burke; or, An impartial review of his private life, his public conduct, his speeches in parliament, and the different productions of his penLee and Hurst, 1798 - 378 pages |
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... hope of amendment , a king is ever surrounded by a crowd of infamous flatterers , who find their account in keeping him from the leaft light of reason , till all ideas of rectitude and justice are utterly erased from his mind . When ...
... hope of amendment , a king is ever surrounded by a crowd of infamous flatterers , who find their account in keeping him from the leaft light of reason , till all ideas of rectitude and justice are utterly erased from his mind . When ...
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... hope that neither Mr. COURTENAY , Lord CAR- LISLE , nor Mr. MALONE , will be offended at our doing justice to the memories of the dead , and at our adorning the bust of Mr. BURKE with that beautiful wreath , which they , from mistake ...
... hope that neither Mr. COURTENAY , Lord CAR- LISLE , nor Mr. MALONE , will be offended at our doing justice to the memories of the dead , and at our adorning the bust of Mr. BURKE with that beautiful wreath , which they , from mistake ...
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... hope fhot through these glooms , on the promotion of fome of his former friends to office in the marquis of ROCKINGHAM'S adminiftration . Goaded by extreme want , and encouraged by fome intimations of kindness and pity , as well as by ...
... hope fhot through these glooms , on the promotion of fome of his former friends to office in the marquis of ROCKINGHAM'S adminiftration . Goaded by extreme want , and encouraged by fome intimations of kindness and pity , as well as by ...
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... hope never will , which I am satisfied never can , prevail in a free parliament like ours . While we are freemen , we may disagree ; but when we unite upon the terms recommended to us by the administration , we must be flaves . " Thus ...
... hope never will , which I am satisfied never can , prevail in a free parliament like ours . While we are freemen , we may disagree ; but when we unite upon the terms recommended to us by the administration , we must be flaves . " Thus ...
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... is no defign , I hope , to call in the aid of despotisin , to fill up the deficiencies of law . " At a later period , no doubt , 02 Mr. Mr. WINDHAM , in friendly confidence , undeceived Mr. BURKE RIGHT HON . EDMUND BURKE . 103.
... is no defign , I hope , to call in the aid of despotisin , to fill up the deficiencies of law . " At a later period , no doubt , 02 Mr. Mr. WINDHAM , in friendly confidence , undeceived Mr. BURKE RIGHT HON . EDMUND BURKE . 103.
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Page 38 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
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Page 141 - ... some way related to the business that was to be done within it. If he was ambitious, I will say this for him, his ambition was of a noble and generous strain. It was to raise himself not by...
Page 38 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Page 142 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 98 - ... them in a superior manner did not always preserve, when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape.
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Page 263 - But he has put to hazard his ease, his security, his interest, his power, even his darling popularity, for the benefit of a people whom he has never seen.
Page 38 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot, too cool; for a drudge, disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Page 104 - The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State, it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake.