The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 31

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Edmund Burke
Longmans, Green, 1792
 

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Página 259 - OLORD, thou hast searched me out, and known me; thou knowest my down-sitting, and mine uprising ; thou understandest my thoughts long before.
Página 294 - ... disconnecting the authority to command service, from the power of animating it by reward ; and for allotting to the prince all the invidious duties of government, without the means of softening them to the public, by any one act of grace, favour, or benignity.
Página 327 - A common contribution being necessary for the support of the public force, and for defraying the other expenses of Government, it ought to be divided equally among the members of the community, according to their abilities.
Página 327 - All who promote, solicit, execute, or cause to be executed, arbitrary orders, ought to be punished, and every citizen called upon, or apprehended by virtue of the law, ought immediately to obey, and renders himself culpable by resistance.
Página 327 - X. No man ought to be molested on account of his opinions, not even on account of his religious opinions, provided his avowal of them does not disturb the public order established by the law.
Página 338 - An aft for the further limitation of the crown, and better fecuring the rights and liberties of the fubjeft...
Página 327 - A public force being necessary to give security to the Rights of Men and of citizens, that force is instituted for the benefit of the community and not for the particular benefit of the persons with whom it is intrusted.
Página 309 - I cannot but regret your departure. I have had the opportunity of acquiring a knowledge of your private characters...
Página 294 - The Prince of Wales learns from Mr. Pitt's letter, that the proceedings in parliament are now in a train which enables Mr. Pitt, according to the intimation in his former letter, to communicate to the prince the outlines of the plan which his majesty's confidential servants conceive to be proper to be proposed in the present circumstances.
Página 309 - I need not add my earnest recommendation to the parliament and people of Ireland, to continue to cultivate the harmony of the two kingdoms, which in their mutual perfect freedom will find the...

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