The Public and Domestic Life of the Right Hon. Edmund BurkeN. Cooke, 1854 - 316 páginas |
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... expression and vivacity - a perfect mistress of dancing , and , thanks to Madame Violante , speaking French fluently - lively , intelligent , witty , and accomplished - no wonder Mistress Woffington turned the heads and won the hearts ...
... expression and vivacity - a perfect mistress of dancing , and , thanks to Madame Violante , speaking French fluently - lively , intelligent , witty , and accomplished - no wonder Mistress Woffington turned the heads and won the hearts ...
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... expression . Oliver Goldsmith , often a spectator of his friend's hard rhetorical struggles with the man of dough , used to declare that the baker ought to become lord chan- cellor . In the February of 1764 was founded the celebrated ...
... expression . Oliver Goldsmith , often a spectator of his friend's hard rhetorical struggles with the man of dough , used to declare that the baker ought to become lord chan- cellor . In the February of 1764 was founded the celebrated ...
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... expression , and gorgeously metaphoric , with a roll of periods . beautifully harmonious , and with thought accumulating upon thought — a union of sense and splendour such as cannot even now be read , repeated , or listened to without ...
... expression , and gorgeously metaphoric , with a roll of periods . beautifully harmonious , and with thought accumulating upon thought — a union of sense and splendour such as cannot even now be read , repeated , or listened to without ...
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... in thought and tone , and now and then an expression escapes him which an Englishman would never have employed . For instance , Junius in allusion to a government measure calls it F C " a Castle job . " He mentions some.
... in thought and tone , and now and then an expression escapes him which an Englishman would never have employed . For instance , Junius in allusion to a government measure calls it F C " a Castle job . " He mentions some.
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... expressed some surprise , and Mr. William Burke hurriedly explained that " the papers were of great import- ance to himself , and of none to any body else . " Mrs. Burke once admitted that she believed her husband knew the author of the ...
... expressed some surprise , and Mr. William Burke hurriedly explained that " the papers were of great import- ance to himself , and of none to any body else . " Mrs. Burke once admitted that she believed her husband knew the author of the ...
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Página 83 - Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Página 88 - Is it not the same virtue which does everything for us here in England ? Do you imagine then, that it is the land tax act which raises your revenue ? that it is the annual vote in the committee of supply, which gives you your army ? or that it is the mutiny bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline ? No ! surely no ! It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Página 94 - He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Página 311 - 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.
Página 83 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Página 177 - 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 252 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Página 84 - If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion ? in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ? and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments...
Página 87 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Página 280 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.