The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellaniesGeorge Bell & sons, 1889 |
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... party which you adopted rather by the feelings of your good nature , than by the conviction of your judgment ? We laid open the foundations of society ; and you feared that the curiosity of this search might endanger the ruin of the ...
... party which you adopted rather by the feelings of your good nature , than by the conviction of your judgment ? We laid open the foundations of society ; and you feared that the curiosity of this search might endanger the ruin of the ...
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... parties and combinations , the first effect of the combination , and indeed the end for which it seems purposely formed , and best calculated , is their mutual destruction . All ancient history is dark and uncertain . One thing however ...
... parties and combinations , the first effect of the combination , and indeed the end for which it seems purposely formed , and best calculated , is their mutual destruction . All ancient history is dark and uncertain . One thing however ...
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... parties in the same destruction . It is little to say , that the contentions between the successors of Alexander depopulated that part of the world of at least two millions . The struggle between the Macedonians and Greeks , and ...
... parties in the same destruction . It is little to say , that the contentions between the successors of Alexander depopulated that part of the world of at least two millions . The struggle between the Macedonians and Greeks , and ...
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... parties ; a momentary shadow and dream of power in some one ; and the subjection of all to the yoke of a stranger , who knows how to profit of their divisions . This at least was the case of the Greeks ; and surely , from the earliest ...
... parties ; a momentary shadow and dream of power in some one ; and the subjection of all to the yoke of a stranger , who knows how to profit of their divisions . This at least was the case of the Greeks ; and surely , from the earliest ...
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... parties , in this city there were parties , and avowed ones too , for the Persians , Spartans , and Macedonians , supported each of them by one or more demagogues pensioned and bribed to this iniquitous service . The people , forgetful ...
... parties , in this city there were parties , and avowed ones too , for the Persians , Spartans , and Macedonians , supported each of them by one or more demagogues pensioned and bribed to this iniquitous service . The people , forgetful ...
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Page 74 - Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
Page 476 - State, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 92 - Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 508 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Page 467 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
Page 454 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is (let me say) of no mean force in the government of mankind.
Page 508 - 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. But let it be once understood, that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another ; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation ; the cement is gone ; the cohesion is loosened ; and every thing hastens to decay and dissolution.
Page 468 - Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states, that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Page 507 - 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 strong as links of iron.