The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes. Vol. I.[-III.].J. Dodsley, Pall Mall., 1792 |
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... opinion , that error , and not truth of any kind , is dangerous ; that ill conclufions can only flow from false propofitions ; and that , to know whether any propofition be true or falfe , it is a prepofterous method to examine it by ...
... opinion , that error , and not truth of any kind , is dangerous ; that ill conclufions can only flow from false propofitions ; and that , to know whether any propofition be true or falfe , it is a prepofterous method to examine it by ...
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... ought to conduct our- selves in examining a received opinion ; but with all that free- dom and candour which we owe to truth wherever we find it , C 2 or or however it may contradict our own notions , or NATURAL SOCIETY . ΙΣ.
... ought to conduct our- selves in examining a received opinion ; but with all that free- dom and candour which we owe to truth wherever we find it , C 2 or or however it may contradict our own notions , or NATURAL SOCIETY . ΙΣ.
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... must have a very mean opinion of institutions where fuch proceedings are neceffary . It is a misfortune , that in no part of the globe natural liberty liberty and natural religion are to be found pure , 28- A VINDICATION OF.
... must have a very mean opinion of institutions where fuch proceedings are neceffary . It is a misfortune , that in no part of the globe natural liberty liberty and natural religion are to be found pure , 28- A VINDICATION OF.
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... opinion , ought to be pro- pofed , either to the feveral principles as they are diftinctly confidered , or to the juftness of the conclufion which is drawn from them . But it is common to pafs over both the pre- mifes and conclufion in ...
... opinion , ought to be pro- pofed , either to the feveral principles as they are diftinctly confidered , or to the juftness of the conclufion which is drawn from them . But it is common to pafs over both the pre- mifes and conclufion in ...
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... opinion concerning fuch matters , their difference is not attended with the fame important confe- quences ; elfe I make no doubt but that the logic of tafte , if I may be allowed the expreffion , might very poffibly be as well digefted ...
... opinion concerning fuch matters , their difference is not attended with the fame important confe- quences ; elfe I make no doubt but that the logic of tafte , if I may be allowed the expreffion , might very poffibly be as well digefted ...
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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.