The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 |
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... kind of slavery the most easily ad- mitted in times of civil discord ; for parties are but too apt to forget their own future safety in their desire of sacrificing their enemies . People without much difficulty admit the entrance of ...
... kind of slavery the most easily ad- mitted in times of civil discord ; for parties are but too apt to forget their own future safety in their desire of sacrificing their enemies . People without much difficulty admit the entrance of ...
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... kind which distinguish it from all others . Not only our policy is deranged , and our empire distracted , but our laws and our legislative spirit appear to have been totally perverted by it . We have made war on our colonies , not by ...
... kind which distinguish it from all others . Not only our policy is deranged , and our empire distracted , but our laws and our legislative spirit appear to have been totally perverted by it . We have made war on our colonies , not by ...
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... kind , our conduct , at least , is conformable to our faculties . No man's life pays the forfeit of our rashness . No desolate widow weeps tears of blood over our ignorance . Scrupulous and sober in our well - grounded distrust of ...
... kind , our conduct , at least , is conformable to our faculties . No man's life pays the forfeit of our rashness . No desolate widow weeps tears of blood over our ignorance . Scrupulous and sober in our well - grounded distrust of ...
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... kind I do not see how it is ever practicable really to reconcile with those , whose affec- tion , after all , must be the surest hold of our government ; and which is a thousand times more worth to us , than the mercenary zeal of all ...
... kind I do not see how it is ever practicable really to reconcile with those , whose affec- tion , after all , must be the surest hold of our government ; and which is a thousand times more worth to us , than the mercenary zeal of all ...
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... whole continent , or within three thousand miles of it , qualified by law to follow allegiance with protection , or submission with pardon . A proceeding of this kind has no example 24 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL .
... whole continent , or within three thousand miles of it , qualified by law to follow allegiance with protection , or submission with pardon . A proceeding of this kind has no example 24 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL .
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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.