The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3C. C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 |
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... wisdom of the nation was from turning a case of necessity into a rule of law . Unquestionably there was at the revolution , in the person of king William , a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary ...
... wisdom of the nation was from turning a case of necessity into a rule of law . Unquestionably there was at the revolution , in the person of king William , a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary ...
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... wisdom , if they had found no security for their freedom , but in rendering their government feeble in its opera- tions , and precarious in its tenure ; if they had been able to contrive no better remedy against arbitrary power than ...
... wisdom , if they had found no security for their freedom , but in rendering their government feeble in its opera- tions , and precarious in its tenure ; if they had been able to contrive no better remedy against arbitrary power than ...
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... wisdom which superseded their theoretic science , they preferred this positive , recorded , hereditary title to all which can be dear to the man and the citizen , to that vague speculative right , which exposed their sure inheritance to ...
... wisdom which superseded their theoretic science , they preferred this positive , recorded , hereditary title to all which can be dear to the man and the citizen , to that vague speculative right , which exposed their sure inheritance to ...
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... wisdom without reflection , and above it . 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 . Besides , the ...
... wisdom without reflection , and above it . 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 . Besides , the ...
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... wisdom , moulding together the great mysterious incorpora- tion 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 ...
... wisdom , moulding together the great mysterious incorpora- tion 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 ...
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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 99 - ... 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 vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
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...
Página 101 - ... and paid it with usury, by enlarging their ideas, and by furnishing their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Página 326 - Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites ; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity ; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption ; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed...
Página 79 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.
Página 118 - And first of all, the science of jurisprudence, the pride of the human intellect, which, with all its defects, redundancies, and errors, is the collected reason of ages, combining the principles of original justice with the infinite variety of human concerns, as a heap of old exploded errors, would be no longer studied.
Página 45 - That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the Kingdom, by breaking the original Contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental Laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the Kingdom, has abdicated the Government, and that the Throne is thereby become vacant.
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 35 - Parliament was made intituled an Act for declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and for settling the succession of the crown...