The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes. Vol. I.[-III.].J. Dodsley, Pall Mall., 1792 |
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... state of happiness . He has mixed in his cup a number of natural evils , ( in spite of the boasts of ftoicifm they are evils ) and every endeavour which the art and policy of mankind has used from the beginning of the world to this day ...
... state of happiness . He has mixed in his cup a number of natural evils , ( in spite of the boasts of ftoicifm they are evils ) and every endeavour which the art and policy of mankind has used from the beginning of the world to this day ...
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... state to form a judgment on it ; it presents itself in two lights , the external and the internal . The first , that ... states , their relation as friends , makes so trifling a figure in his- tory , that I am very forry to say , it ...
... state to form a judgment on it ; it presents itself in two lights , the external and the internal . The first , that ... states , their relation as friends , makes so trifling a figure in his- tory , that I am very forry to say , it ...
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... state however conftituted . He ought , fays this great political doctor , to confider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . A meditation on the conduct ...
... state however conftituted . He ought , fays this great political doctor , to confider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . A meditation on the conduct ...
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... state . It is a reafon , which I own I cannot penetrate . What fort of a protection is this of the general right , that is maintained by infringing the rights of particulars ? What fort of juftice is this , which is inforced by breaches ...
... state . It is a reafon , which I own I cannot penetrate . What fort of a protection is this of the general right , that is maintained by infringing the rights of particulars ? What fort of juftice is this , which is inforced by breaches ...
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... states never formed , though they were taken all together , the thousandth part of the habitable globe ; the freemen in these states were never the twentieth part of the people , and the time they fubfifted is fcarce any thing in that ...
... states never formed , though they were taken all together , the thousandth part of the habitable globe ; the freemen in these states were never the twentieth part of the people , and the time they fubfifted is fcarce any thing in that ...
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Page 574 - Sir, let the gentlemen on the other side call forth all their ability, let the best of them get up and tell me, what one character of liberty the Americans have, and what one brand of slavery they are free from, if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce, and at the same time are made packhorses of every tax you choose to impose, without the least share in granting them. When they bear the...
Page 122 - IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination. If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landscape, I present a very clear idea of those objects; but...
Page 121 - To make any thing very terrible, obscurity* seems in general to be necessary. When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes.
Page 112 - Now whatever either on good or upon bad grounds tends to raise a man in his own opinion, produces a sort of swelling and triumph that is extremely grateful to the human mind; and this swelling is never more perceived, nor operates with more force, than when without danger we are conversant with terrible objects, the mind always claiming to itself some part of the dignity and importance of the things which it contemplates.
Page 565 - Deprived of his guiding influence, they were whirled about, the sport of every gust, and easily driven into any port ; and as those who joined with them in manning the vessel were the most directly opposite to his opinions, measures, and character, and far the most artful and most powerful...
Page 570 - ... and what repealing; what bullying, and what submitting; what doing, and undoing ; what straining, and what relaxing what assemblies dissolved for not obeying, and called again without obedience ; what troops sent out to quell resistance, and on meeting that resistance, recalled ; what shiftings, and changes, and jumblings of all kinds of men at home, which left no possibility of order, consistency, vigour, or even so much as a decent unity of colour in any one public measure.
Page 567 - But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame ; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. He worshipped that goddess wheresoever she appeared ; but he paid his particular devotions to her in her favourite habitation, in her chosen temple, the House of Commons.
Page 71 - I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty or those faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or which form a judgment of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts.
Page 125 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.