The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volumen1Harper & Brothers, 1860 |
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... given by him to his friends , in con- versation on the subject . But another note will probably interest the reader still more , as being strongly expressive of that parental affec- tion which formed so amiable a feature in the ...
... given by him to his friends , in con- versation on the subject . But another note will probably interest the reader still more , as being strongly expressive of that parental affec- tion which formed so amiable a feature in the ...
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... given in public distress ; the relief afforded in general calamity ; the protection granted in emergent danger : the mutual return of kindness and civility , would afford a very ample and very pleasing subject for history . But , alas ...
... given in public distress ; the relief afforded in general calamity ; the protection granted in emergent danger : the mutual return of kindness and civility , would afford a very ample and very pleasing subject for history . But , alas ...
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... given them a colour . The first settling of the Jews here , was attend- ed by an almost entire extirpation of all the former inhabitants . Their own civil wars , and those with their petty neighbours , con- sumed vast multitudes almost ...
... given them a colour . The first settling of the Jews here , was attend- ed by an almost entire extirpation of all the former inhabitants . Their own civil wars , and those with their petty neighbours , con- sumed vast multitudes almost ...
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... given us these destructive views , have given us also the means of satis fying them . From the earliest dawnings of policy to this day , the inventions of men have been sharpening and improving the mystery of murder , from the first ...
... given us these destructive views , have given us also the means of satis fying them . From the earliest dawnings of policy to this day , the inventions of men have been sharpening and improving the mystery of murder , from the first ...
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... given our necks to the yoke of political and theological slavery . We have renounced the prerogative of man , and it is no wonder that we should be treated like beasts . But our misery is much greater than theirs , as the crime we ...
... given our necks to the yoke of political and theological slavery . We have renounced the prerogative of man , and it is no wonder that we should be treated like beasts . But our misery is much greater than theirs , as the crime we ...
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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.