The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volumen1Harper & Brothers, 1860 |
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... continued ib . Joy and Grief ib . Power Of the Passions which belong to Self- Privation preservation 48 Vastness Of the Sublime ib . Infinity · Of the passions which belong to So- Succession and Uniformity ib 7 278 2 57 60 ib . ciety ib ...
... continued ib . Joy and Grief ib . Power Of the Passions which belong to Self- Privation preservation 48 Vastness Of the Sublime ib . Infinity · Of the passions which belong to So- Succession and Uniformity ib 7 278 2 57 60 ib . ciety ib ...
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... Continued Intermitting ib . The Cries of Animals . How the Sublime is produced ib . Smell and Taste . Bitters and Stenches ib . Feeling . Pain 66 How Pain can be a cause of Delight Exercise necessary for the finer Organs Why things not ...
... Continued Intermitting ib . The Cries of Animals . How the Sublime is produced ib . Smell and Taste . Bitters and Stenches ib . Feeling . Pain 66 How Pain can be a cause of Delight Exercise necessary for the finer Organs Why things not ...
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... continued to be the subject of general discourse , the Author was busily employed in conduct- ing through the press , a performance of another description , entitled , " A Philoso- phical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the ...
... continued to be the subject of general discourse , the Author was busily employed in conduct- ing through the press , a performance of another description , entitled , " A Philoso- phical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the ...
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... continued on the side of the dismissed ministers , who , on that account , made themselves sure of displacing their ad- versaries , that from day to day , they pe- remptorily called upon the young chan- cellor of the exchequer to resign ...
... continued on the side of the dismissed ministers , who , on that account , made themselves sure of displacing their ad- versaries , that from day to day , they pe- remptorily called upon the young chan- cellor of the exchequer to resign ...
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... continued to palliate the conduct of the French republícans , though at the same time he professed to abhor regicide , and to admire a monarchical form of go- vernment . In the mean time the rank of opposition became thinner every day ...
... continued to palliate the conduct of the French republícans , though at the same time he professed to abhor regicide , and to admire a monarchical form of go- vernment . In the mean time the rank of opposition became thinner every day ...
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Página 494 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection . As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead and those who are to be born.
Página 312 - ... 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.
Página 223 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
Página 395 - ... criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, 'and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Página 466 - 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 ; 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...
Página 217 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest — that of the whole ; where not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, — but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol,...
Página 477 - They have a right to the fruits of their industry; and to the means of making their industry fruitful. They have a right to the acquisitions of their parents; to the nourishment and improvement of their offspring; to instruction in life, and to consolation in death. Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.
Página 494 - Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure; but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Página 465 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper, and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Página 245 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians, who have no place among us ; a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.