The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes. Vol. I.[-III.].J. Dodsley, Pall Mall., 1792 |
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... less than twelve hundred thousand lives must have been facrificed ; but no fooner had he fallen himself a facrifice to his vices , than a thousand breaches were made for ruin to enter , and give the last hand to this scene of mifery and ...
... less than twelve hundred thousand lives must have been facrificed ; but no fooner had he fallen himself a facrifice to his vices , than a thousand breaches were made for ruin to enter , and give the last hand to this scene of mifery and ...
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... less than three millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been in antient times , whilft the mode of its government was con- troverted between the republican and tyrannical parties , and the ...
... less than three millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been in antient times , whilft the mode of its government was con- troverted between the republican and tyrannical parties , and the ...
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... less than three millions of the fpecies . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very small part , of the havock caused by the Roman ambition . The war with Mithridates was very little lefs bloody ; that prince cut off at one ftroke ...
... less than three millions of the fpecies . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very small part , of the havock caused by the Roman ambition . The war with Mithridates was very little lefs bloody ; that prince cut off at one ftroke ...
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... less than univerfal destruc- tion to the race of mankind feems to have been threatened . When the Goths , the Vandals , and the Huns poured into Gaul , Italy , Spain , Greece , and Africa , carrying destruc- tion before them as they ...
... less than univerfal destruc- tion to the race of mankind feems to have been threatened . When the Goths , the Vandals , and the Huns poured into Gaul , Italy , Spain , Greece , and Africa , carrying destruc- tion before them as they ...
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... less miferable manner by the other destructive confequences of war from the beginning of the world to this day , in the four parts of it , at a thousand times as much ; no exag- gerated calculation , allowing for time and extent . We ...
... less miferable manner by the other destructive confequences of war from the beginning of the world to this day , in the four parts of it , at a thousand times as much ; no exag- gerated calculation , allowing for time and extent . We ...
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Página 574 - Sir, let the gentlemen on the other side call forth all their ability, let the best of them get up and tell me, what one character of liberty the Americans have, and what one brand of slavery they are free from, if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce, and at the same time are made packhorses of every tax you choose to impose, without the least share in granting them. When they bear the...
Página 122 - IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination. If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landscape, I present a very clear idea of those objects; but...
Página 121 - To make any thing very terrible, obscurity* seems in general to be necessary. When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes.
Página 112 - Now whatever either on good or upon bad grounds tends to raise a man in his own opinion, produces a sort of swelling and triumph that is extremely grateful to the human mind; and this swelling is never more perceived, nor operates with more force, than when without danger we are conversant with terrible objects, the mind always claiming to itself some part of the dignity and importance of the things which it contemplates.
Página 565 - Deprived of his guiding influence, they were whirled about, the sport of every gust, and easily driven into any port ; and as those who joined with them in manning the vessel were the most directly opposite to his opinions, measures, and character, and far the most artful and most powerful...
Página 570 - ... and what repealing; what bullying, and what submitting; what doing, and undoing ; what straining, and what relaxing what assemblies dissolved for not obeying, and called again without obedience ; what troops sent out to quell resistance, and on meeting that resistance, recalled ; what shiftings, and changes, and jumblings of all kinds of men at home, which left no possibility of order, consistency, vigour, or even so much as a decent unity of colour in any one public measure.
Página 567 - But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame ; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. He worshipped that goddess wheresoever she appeared ; but he paid his particular devotions to her in her favourite habitation, in her chosen temple, the House of Commons.
Página 71 - I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty or those faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or which form a judgment of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts.
Página 125 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.