The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Selected from the Writings, &c. of that Extraordinary Man, Alphabetically Arranged ... to which is Prefixed, a Sketch of the Life, with Some Original Anecdotes of Mr. BurkeJ.W. Meyers, and sold by W. West, 1798 - 499 páginas |
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... body of office took the alarm . A violent outcry of all ( except thofe who knew and felt the mifchief ) was raifed againft any alteration . On one hand , his attempt was a direct violation of treaties and public law . On the other , the ...
... body of office took the alarm . A violent outcry of all ( except thofe who knew and felt the mifchief ) was raifed againft any alteration . On one hand , his attempt was a direct violation of treaties and public law . On the other , the ...
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... body , and fhould tell him- " Young man , there is America -which , at this day , ferves for little more than to amufe you with ftories of favage men , and un- couth manners , yet fhall , before you tafte of death , fhew itfelf equal to ...
... body , and fhould tell him- " Young man , there is America -which , at this day , ferves for little more than to amufe you with ftories of favage men , and un- couth manners , yet fhall , before you tafte of death , fhew itfelf equal to ...
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... body , had not only the fanction of precedent , but might be practifed with great advantage , and be pro- ductive of much benefit in fuch cafes as the prefent . But for this purpose , it must be attended with the following circumftances ...
... body , had not only the fanction of precedent , but might be practifed with great advantage , and be pro- ductive of much benefit in fuch cafes as the prefent . But for this purpose , it must be attended with the following circumftances ...
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... body of the people . And we add , Sire , that if fortune , inftead of bleffing us with a fituation where we may have daily access to the propitious prefence of a gracious prince , had fixed us in fettle- ments on the remoteft part of ...
... body of the people . And we add , Sire , that if fortune , inftead of bleffing us with a fituation where we may have daily access to the propitious prefence of a gracious prince , had fixed us in fettle- ments on the remoteft part of ...
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... body of men , the major part of whom did not place fo high a value upon tropes and figures as they did upon the fhining toys and trinkets which they exported to the coafts of Africa . Mr. Burke faw that America was on the verge of being ...
... body of men , the major part of whom did not place fo high a value upon tropes and figures as they did upon the fhining toys and trinkets which they exported to the coafts of Africa . Mr. Burke faw that America was on the verge of being ...
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Página 47 - Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete.
Página 47 - 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 16 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion; and ever will be so, as long as the world //'endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last, is, let me say, of no mean force in the government of mankind. Genuine simplicity of heart is an healing and cementing principle.
Página 47 - 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...
Página 106 - ... disputants. As we must give away some natural liberty to enjoy civil advantages, so we must sacrifice some civil liberties for the advantages to be derived from the communion and fellowship of a great empire. But, in all fair dealings, the thing bought must bear some proportion to the purchase paid. None will barter away " the immediate jewel of his soul.
Página 59 - For eighteen months without intermission this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore ; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One...
Página 58 - ... and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor...
Página 33 - Britain sits at the head of her extensive empire in two capacities : one as the local legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power. — The other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial character ; in which, as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferior legislatures, and guides and controls them all, without annihilating any.
Página 23 - ... energy, in this new people is no way worn out or impaired; and their mode of professing it is also one main cause of this free spirit. The people are Protestants, and of that kind which is the most adverse to all implicit submission of mind and opinion. This is a persuasion not only favourable to liberty, but built upon it.
Página 25 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.