Burke, Select Works, Volume 3Clarendon Press, 1877 - 712 páginas |
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Página xv
... regard to absolute justice . They were unjust and unscrupulous , and it was perhaps pardon- able to attack them with their own weapons . From all this we deduce the critical canon , that properly to understand Burke's book we must look ...
... regard to absolute justice . They were unjust and unscrupulous , and it was perhaps pardon- able to attack them with their own weapons . From all this we deduce the critical canon , that properly to understand Burke's book we must look ...
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... regard to the just rights of all the rest , he has credit in every candid mind . Burke's overstrained reverence for the Act of Settlement may be partly due to the general feeling of un- certainty which , during his own century ...
... regard to the just rights of all the rest , he has credit in every candid mind . Burke's overstrained reverence for the Act of Settlement may be partly due to the general feeling of un- certainty which , during his own century ...
Página xxv
... regard to the coherence and significance of the system . It is liable to abuse and many may think that the whole conception belongs to the domain of poetry rather than to that of philosophy . The poetry of the time , indeed , reflects ...
... regard to the coherence and significance of the system . It is liable to abuse and many may think that the whole conception belongs to the domain of poetry rather than to that of philosophy . The poetry of the time , indeed , reflects ...
Página xli
... regard our social life as a perpetual and indestructible possession , destined , like the earth on which we move , to devolve , without any trouble or care on our part , upon our posterity . But the whole tenour of history is against us ...
... regard our social life as a perpetual and indestructible possession , destined , like the earth on which we move , to devolve , without any trouble or care on our part , upon our posterity . But the whole tenour of history is against us ...
Página xlii
... Regard our inheritance in its true light , as a precious thing that we should fear to lose , and we begin to estimate it at its true value . Regard our own title to it as a solemn trust for the benefit of our descendants , and we shall ...
... Regard our inheritance in its true light , as a precious thing that we should fear to lose , and we begin to estimate it at its true value . Regard our own title to it as a solemn trust for the benefit of our descendants , and we shall ...
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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.