The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 |
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... better SecURITY OF THE INDEPENDENCE Of Parliament , ' AND THE ECONOMICAL REFORMATION OF THE CIVIL AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS • SPEECH AT BRISTOL , PREVIOUS TO THE ELECTION , 1780 43 55 127 SPEECH AT BRISTOL , UN DECLINING THE POLL 170 ...
... better SecURITY OF THE INDEPENDENCE Of Parliament , ' AND THE ECONOMICAL REFORMATION OF THE CIVIL AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS • SPEECH AT BRISTOL , PREVIOUS TO THE ELECTION , 1780 43 55 127 SPEECH AT BRISTOL , UN DECLINING THE POLL 170 ...
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... ; and that the cause of the dispute was lost in the consequences . The people of England were then , as they are now , called upon to make government strong . They thought it a great deal better to LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 23.
... ; and that the cause of the dispute was lost in the consequences . The people of England were then , as they are now , called upon to make government strong . They thought it a great deal better to LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 23.
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... better than all the doctrines which the pliant accommodation of theology to power has ever produced . It cuts up by the roots , not only all idea of forcible resistance , but even of civil opposition . It disposes men to an abject ...
... better than all the doctrines which the pliant accommodation of theology to power has ever produced . It cuts up by the roots , not only all idea of forcible resistance , but even of civil opposition . It disposes men to an abject ...
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Edmund Burke. true , that the superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one . It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere . The true ground of ...
Edmund Burke. true , that the superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one . It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere . The true ground of ...
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... is not taken from ourselves . But it is fit that we should get the better of these suggestions , which come from what is not the best and soundest part of our nature , and that we should E 2 TWO LETTERS TO GENTLEMEN IN BRISTOL . 51.
... is not taken from ourselves . But it is fit that we should get the better of these suggestions , which come from what is not the best and soundest part of our nature , and that we should E 2 TWO LETTERS TO GENTLEMEN IN BRISTOL . 51.
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Page 303 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 364 - 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.
Page 433 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Page 319 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Page 551 - Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Page 297 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 423 - It is with the greatest difficulty that I am able to separate policy from justice. Justice itself is the great standing policy of civil society ; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Page 164 - I have not lived in vain. And now, Gentlemen, on this serious day, when I come, as it were, to make up my account with you, let me take to myself some degree of honest pride on the nature of the charges that are against me.
Page 406 - Omnes boni nobilitati semper favemus, was the saying of a wise and good man. It is, indeed, one sign of a liberal and benevolent mind to incline to it with some sort of partial propensity. He feels no ennobling principle in his own heart who wishes to level all the artificial institutions which have been adopted for giving a body to opinion and permanence to fugitive esteem.