The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3C. C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 |
De dentro do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 78
Página 12
... crown army , another army , deriving under another authority , called a municipal army - a balance of armies , not ... crown army , is the crown responsible for the whole of it ? Is there any general who can be responsible for the ...
... crown army , another army , deriving under another authority , called a municipal army - a balance of armies , not ... crown army , is the crown responsible for the whole of it ? Is there any general who can be responsible for the ...
Página 31
... crown to the choice of his people . " As to the kings ] of the world , all of whom ( except one ) this arch pontiff of the rights of men , with all the plenitude , and with more than the boldness of the papal deposing power in its ...
... crown to the choice of his people . " As to the kings ] of the world , all of whom ( except one ) this arch pontiff of the rights of men , with all the plenitude , and with more than the boldness of the papal deposing power in its ...
Página 32
... crown to to the choice of his people , he is no lawful king . Now nothing can be more untrue than that the crown of this kingdom is so held by his majesty . Therefore if you follow their rule , the king of Great Britain , who most ...
... crown to to the choice of his people , he is no lawful king . Now nothing can be more untrue than that the crown of this kingdom is so held by his majesty . Therefore if you follow their rule , the king of Great Britain , who most ...
Página 33
... crown to the choice of his people . Thus , by a miserable subterfuge , they hope to render their proposition . safe , by rendering it nugatory . They are welcome to the asylum they seek for their offence , since they take refuge in ...
... crown to the choice of his people . Thus , by a miserable subterfuge , they hope to render their proposition . safe , by rendering it nugatory . They are welcome to the asylum they seek for their offence , since they take refuge in ...
Página 35
... crown , and of a further security for the liber- ties of the people , again came before the legislature . Did they this second time make any provision for legalizing the crown on the spurious revolution principles of the Old Jewry ? No ...
... crown , and of a further security for the liber- ties of the people , again came before the legislature . Did they this second time make any provision for legalizing the crown on the spurious revolution principles of the Old Jewry ? No ...
Outras edições - Ver todos
Termos e frases comuns
act of parliament admit amongst ancient army assignats authority body British constitution Burke called canton catholics cause church church of England citizens civil clergy conduct confiscation considered constitution crown declaration despotism destroy dissenters doctrine duty effect election England establishment estates evil exist faction favor federacies France French French revolution fundamental gentlemen hereditary honor house of commons house of lords human Ireland JOSEPH JEKYL justice king king of France kingdom land liberty mankind manner means ment mind monarchy moral national assembly nature never nobility obedience object obliged Old Jewry opinion oppression Paris parliament party persons political possess present principles proceedings protestant reason reform religion republic revenue revolution scheme sentiments shew society sort sovereign spirit suppose thing thought tion true tyranny usurpation virtue whigs whilst whole wholly wisdom wish
Passagens mais conhecidas
Página 120 - 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 98 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Página 195 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Página 81 - Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
Página 99 - On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom, as it is destitute of all taste and elegance, laws are to be supported only by their own terrors, and by the concern, which each individual may find in them, from his own private speculations, or can spare to them from his own private interests. In the groves of their academy, at the end of every visto, you see nothing but the gallows.
Página 99 - All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded, as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.
Página 120 - Subordinate contracts for (jectsot mere xiflUaSlBHSHntewBt 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 119 - ... we have consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution ; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
Página 110 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
Página 98 - Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom...