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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... perhaps these will not be looked upon as faults by the admirers of Lord BOLINGBROKE ; who will , the editor is afraid , observe much more of his Lordship's character in such particulars of the following letter , than they are likely to ...
... perhaps these will not be looked upon as faults by the admirers of Lord BOLINGBROKE ; who will , the editor is afraid , observe much more of his Lordship's character in such particulars of the following letter , than they are likely to ...
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... objections from these quarters , I may the more freely inquire , from history and experience , how far policy has contributed in all times . to alleviate those evils which Providence , that perhaps has A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 9.
... objections from these quarters , I may the more freely inquire , from history and experience , how far policy has contributed in all times . to alleviate those evils which Providence , that perhaps has A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 9.
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... perhaps by no skill . In looking over any state to form a judgment on it , it presents itself in two lights ; the external , and the internal . The first , that relation which it bears in point of friendship or enmity to other states ...
... perhaps by no skill . In looking over any state to form a judgment on it , it presents itself in two lights ; the external , and the internal . The first , that relation which it bears in point of friendship or enmity to other states ...
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... perhaps of any other nation in the world ; though the histories of all nations are made up of similar matter . I once more excuse myself in point of exactness for want of books . But I shall estimate the slaughters in this island but at ...
... perhaps of any other nation in the world ; though the histories of all nations are made up of similar matter . I once more excuse myself in point of exactness for want of books . But I shall estimate the slaughters in this island but at ...
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... perhaps spoke of the five - hundredth part ; I am sure I have not of what is actually ascertained in history ; but how much of these butcheries are only expressed in generals , what part of time history has never reached , and what vast ...
... perhaps spoke of the five - hundredth part ; I am sure I have not of what is actually ascertained in history ; but how much of these butcheries are only expressed in generals , what part of time history has never reached , and what vast ...
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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.
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellanies Bohn's standard library Volume 1 of The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Publisher | George Bell & sons, 1889 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 31 May 2007 |
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