The Works of ... Edmund Burke, Volumen5F. & C. Rivington, 1803 |
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... Some traces of this fpirit in him now stand on their statute book . In his opinion , any thing which unneceffarily tore to pieces the contexture of the state , not only pre- vented all real reformation , but introduced evils which would ...
... Some traces of this fpirit in him now stand on their statute book . In his opinion , any thing which unneceffarily tore to pieces the contexture of the state , not only pre- vented all real reformation , but introduced evils which would ...
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... - volution in England ; and the conduct of the fol- diery , on that occafion , compared with the behavi- our of some of the troops of France in the pre- fent fent inftance . At that period the Prince of Orange 18 SUBSTANCE OF THE SPEECH .
... - volution in England ; and the conduct of the fol- diery , on that occafion , compared with the behavi- our of some of the troops of France in the pre- fent fent inftance . At that period the Prince of Orange 18 SUBSTANCE OF THE SPEECH .
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... some purpose , new mem- bers may have entered among them ; and that fome truly christian politicians , who love to dif penfe benefits , but are careful to conceal the hand which distributes the dole , may have made them the inftruments ...
... some purpose , new mem- bers may have entered among them ; and that fome truly christian politicians , who love to dif penfe benefits , but are careful to conceal the hand which distributes the dole , may have made them the inftruments ...
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... some moment , seriously to confider the folidity of the only principle upon which thefe gentlemen ac- knowledge a king of Great Britain to be entitled to their allegiance . This doctrine , as applied to the prince now on the British ...
... some moment , seriously to confider the folidity of the only principle upon which thefe gentlemen ac- knowledge a king of Great Britain to be entitled to their allegiance . This doctrine , as applied to the prince now on the British ...
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... Some time after the conqueft great questions arofe upon the legal principles of hereditary descent . It became a matter of doubt , whether the heir per capita or the heir per ftirpes was to fucceed ; but whether the heir per capita gave ...
... Some time after the conqueft great questions arofe upon the legal principles of hereditary descent . It became a matter of doubt , whether the heir per capita or the heir per ftirpes was to fucceed ; but whether the heir per capita gave ...
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Página 79 - ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the 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 tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Página 121 - But he has not a right to an equal dividend in the product of the joint stock; and as to the share of power, authority, and direction which each individual ought to have in the management of the state, that I must deny to be amongst the direct original rights of man in civil society; for I have in my contemplation the civil social man, and no other.
Página 42 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Página 184 - It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection.
Página 79 - The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of Providence, are handed down to us, and from us in the same course and order. Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory, parts...
Página 183 - ... approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
Página 79 - By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.
Página 172 - Who, born within the last forty years, has read one word of Collins, and Toland, and Tindal, and Chubb, and Morgan, and that whole race who called themselves Freethinkers? Who now reads Bolingbroke? Who ever read him through?
Página 78 - You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Página 36 - Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered?