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... Peace , ' and he will find Burke's folly wiser than the wisdom , and his madness saner than the reason , of his critics 2 . The term inconsistency may be used in different ways to imply charges of very various kinds . In the shifting ...
... Peace , ' and he will find Burke's folly wiser than the wisdom , and his madness saner than the reason , of his critics 2 . The term inconsistency may be used in different ways to imply charges of very various kinds . In the shifting ...
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... peace and tranquillity of the country ; is not such a genius equally contemptible and narrow with that of the poorest mortal upon earth , who grovels for his whole life within the verge of the opposite extreme ? ' ' In this speech ...
... peace and tranquillity of the country ; is not such a genius equally contemptible and narrow with that of the poorest mortal upon earth , who grovels for his whole life within the verge of the opposite extreme ? ' ' In this speech ...
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... Peace . In the latter work Burke has been compared to an Atlas ; not labouring , but sporting with the burden of a world on his shoulders . This Letter has been held to exceed in intellectual magnitude all other single efforts of the ...
... Peace . In the latter work Burke has been compared to an Atlas ; not labouring , but sporting with the burden of a world on his shoulders . This Letter has been held to exceed in intellectual magnitude all other single efforts of the ...
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... Peace is one of the most remarkable examples of the employment of this effect : ' Even when men are willing , as sometimes they are , to barter their blood for lucre , to hazard their safety for the gratification of their avarice , the ...
... Peace is one of the most remarkable examples of the employment of this effect : ' Even when men are willing , as sometimes they are , to barter their blood for lucre , to hazard their safety for the gratification of their avarice , the ...
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... Noble Lord . 1795 Thoughts and Details on Scarcity . Letter to a Noble Lord . 1796 Letters on Regicide Peace . 1797 Death . CONTENTS . Introduction Chronological Table Thoughts on the Cause of lxii CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE .
... Noble Lord . 1795 Thoughts and Details on Scarcity . Letter to a Noble Lord . 1796 Letters on Regicide Peace . 1797 Death . CONTENTS . Introduction Chronological Table Thoughts on the Cause of lxii CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE .
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Página 177 - First, Sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Página 232 - Do you imagine then, that it is the land tax act which raises your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the committee of supply which gives you your army? or that it is the mutiny bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline? No ! surely no ! It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Página 309 - Colony, for contributing their proportion to the Common Defence (such proportion to be raised under the Authority of the General Court or General Assembly of such Province or Colony and disposable by Parliament) and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the Civil Government and the administration of Justice...
Página 182 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were the Poles, and such will be all masters of .slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.
Página 86 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Página 145 - ... patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Página 233 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Página 173 - Clouds, indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Bathurst might remember all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of an age at least to be made to comprehend such things. He was then old enough...
Página 168 - I am sensible that a good deal more is still to be done. Indeed, sir, to enable us to determine both on the one and the other of these great questions with a firm and precise judgment, I think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us. Because after...
Página 169 - Whilst we spend our time in deliberating on the mode of governing Two Millions, we shall find we have Millions more to manage. Your children do not grow faster from infancy to manhood, than they spread from families to communities, and from villages to nations.