Burke, Select Works, Volume 3Clarendon Press, 1877 - 712 páginas |
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Página x
... body of the nation , and not from a corps of professed intriguers , saved it from the moral disgrace which attended the Executive . Many were in favour of restoring soundness to the Executive as a preliminary reform ; and many were the ...
... body of the nation , and not from a corps of professed intriguers , saved it from the moral disgrace which attended the Executive . Many were in favour of restoring soundness to the Executive as a preliminary reform ; and many were the ...
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... body of oppressive interests which time and usage had legalised was too strong to give way to a moderate pressure . A convulsion , a mighty shock , a disturbance of normal forces , was necessary : and the French people had long been ...
... body of oppressive interests which time and usage had legalised was too strong to give way to a moderate pressure . A convulsion , a mighty shock , a disturbance of normal forces , was necessary : and the French people had long been ...
Página xiv
... body of the British nation , from its historical traditions , from the opinions and doctrines transmitted to it from the earliest times , from its constitution and essence , was utterly hostile to these dangerous novelties , and bound ...
... body of the British nation , from its historical traditions , from the opinions and doctrines transmitted to it from the earliest times , from its constitution and essence , was utterly hostile to these dangerous novelties , and bound ...
Página xv
... body of the nation agreed in this fierce and eloquent denunciation . The Jacobins steadily went down in public estimation from the day of its publication . Burke's fiery philippic seemed to dry up their strength , as the sun dries up ...
... body of the nation agreed in this fierce and eloquent denunciation . The Jacobins steadily went down in public estimation from the day of its publication . Burke's fiery philippic seemed to dry up their strength , as the sun dries up ...
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... body , defined by reason and conscience , expounded and ratified by revelation . ' So exact is the applica- tion , one might think he was speaking of Burke . A book might be made up by illustrating the political conceptions of Shakspere ...
... body , defined by reason and conscience , expounded and ratified by revelation . ' So exact is the applica- tion , one might think he was speaking of Burke . A book might be made up by illustrating the political conceptions of Shakspere ...
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Página 85 - 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 xxv - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Página 27 - That King James II., 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 vacant.
Página xxvi - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad: But when the planets, In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea! shaking of earth! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture...
Página 35 - 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 65 - 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.
Página 19 - And thereunto the said lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, do, in the name of all the people aforesaid, most humbly and faithfully submit themselves, their heirs and posterities for ever...
Página 306 - Such are their ideas, such their religion, and such their law. But as to our country, and our race, as long as the well-compacted structure of our church and state, the sanctuary, the holy of holies of that ancient law, defended by reverence, defended by power, a fortress at once and a temple...
Página 286 - They must respect that property of which they cannot partake. They must labour to obtain what by labour can be obtained ; and when they find, as they commonly do, the success disproportioned to the endeavour, they must be taught their consolation in the final proportions of eternal justice.
Página 9 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.