Burke, Select Works, Volume 1The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2005 - 848 páginas An appealing compilation of Burke's principal works, including On the Causes of the Present Discontents (1770), which treats the expulsion of Wilkes from Parliament and the value of political parties, the speech On Conciliation with the American Colonies (1775), which supported the cause of the colonists, and Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), a classic criticism of the revolution and its actors. Burke [1729-1797] is considered a founder of modern conservatism. This is true to some extent, but not quite. He believed in popular government and recognized the inevitability of change. Indeed, he believed that a state that could not adapt to change was a state doomed to failure. |
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... party men down to our own day . Political parties will always divide civilised nations , and no Englishman can altogether dismiss the party relations of any celebrated politician . Liberals will always be disposed to forget the ...
... party men down to our own day . Political parties will always divide civilised nations , and no Englishman can altogether dismiss the party relations of any celebrated politician . Liberals will always be disposed to forget the ...
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... party statesmanship . The first question that is suggested on finding the political writings of an eminent party leader ranked among literary classics , is — What marks distinguish these writings from the common mass of political ...
... party statesmanship . The first question that is suggested on finding the political writings of an eminent party leader ranked among literary classics , is — What marks distinguish these writings from the common mass of political ...
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... Party . . . . Burke was mighty in either camp : and it would have taken two great men to effect what he , by this division of himself , achieved . His mind , indeed , lies parted asunder in his works , like some vast continent severed ...
... Party . . . . Burke was mighty in either camp : and it would have taken two great men to effect what he , by this division of himself , achieved . His mind , indeed , lies parted asunder in his works , like some vast continent severed ...
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... Party distinctions are of so perishable a nature that unless we can fix on something belonging to our own times , and ' coming home to our business and bosoms , ' we are in danger of becoming the victims of words . We will not limit ...
... Party distinctions are of so perishable a nature that unless we can fix on something belonging to our own times , and ' coming home to our business and bosoms , ' we are in danger of becoming the victims of words . We will not limit ...
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... party name , it has of course incurred the liability common to all party names of losing not only its original meaning , but all vestige of any meaning what- The vicissitudes of such names are curious . The term ' Whig , ' for instance ...
... party name , it has of course incurred the liability common to all party names of losing not only its original meaning , but all vestige of any meaning what- The vicissitudes of such names are curious . The term ' Whig , ' for instance ...
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Página xxix - Office, and custom, in all line of order : And therefore is the glorious planet Sol In noble eminence enthroned and sphered Amidst the other ; whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad...
Página 231 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Página 231 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience.
Página 174 - If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it'! Fortunate man, he has lived to see it! Fortunate indeed, if he lives to see nothing that shall vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day!
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 217 - An act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time, as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town and within the harbour of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America.
Página xxx - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark ! what discord follows ; each thing meets In mere oppugnancy : the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe : Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Página xl - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.