Burke, Select Works, Volume 3Clarendon Press, 1877 - 712 páginas |
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Página xlvii
... estates on which his order had thriven unchallenged ever since France had been a nation : no reader of Selden could think the argument applicable to the Church of England . When once the Common- wealth , ' says Burke , ' has established ...
... estates on which his order had thriven unchallenged ever since France had been a nation : no reader of Selden could think the argument applicable to the Church of England . When once the Common- wealth , ' says Burke , ' has established ...
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... Estates of the Church , and are grossly outraged by the confiscation of Church property in France , p . 122. National Credit of France , a hollow pretext , p . 126. Monied interest hostile to the Church , p . 128 . Men of Letters ...
... Estates of the Church , and are grossly outraged by the confiscation of Church property in France , p . 122. National Credit of France , a hollow pretext , p . 126. Monied interest hostile to the Church , p . 128 . Men of Letters ...
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... Estates of the Church , and are grossly outraged by the confiscation of Church property in France , p . 122. National Credit of France , a hollow pretext , p . 126. Monied interest hostile to the Church , p . 128 . Men of Letters ...
... Estates of the Church , and are grossly outraged by the confiscation of Church property in France , p . 122. National Credit of France , a hollow pretext , p . 126. Monied interest hostile to the Church , p . 128 . Men of Letters ...
Página 122
... estates to the like amount in the hands of this Earl , or that Squire ; although it may be true , that so many dogs and horses are not kept by the former , and fed with the victuals which ought to nourish the children of the people . It ...
... estates to the like amount in the hands of this Earl , or that Squire ; although it may be true , that so many dogs and horses are not kept by the former , and fed with the victuals which ought to nourish the children of the people . It ...
Página 123
... estates of the church and poor . Sacrilege and proscription are not among the ways and means in our committee of supply . The Jews in Change Alley have not yet dared to hint their hopes of a mortgage on the revenues belonging to the see ...
... estates of the church and poor . Sacrilege and proscription are not among the ways and means in our committee of supply . The Jews in Change Alley have not yet dared to hint their hopes of a mortgage on the revenues belonging to the see ...
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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.