The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 |
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... late rebellions in this king- dom ? The answer to all demands of that sort was , " We can engage for nothing ; you are at the king's pleasure . " We ought to remember , that if our present enemies be , in reality and truth , rebels ...
... late rebellions in this king- dom ? The answer to all demands of that sort was , " We can engage for nothing ; you are at the king's pleasure . " We ought to remember , that if our present enemies be , in reality and truth , rebels ...
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... late proceedings we see very few traces of that generosity , humanity , and dignity of mind , which formerly characterized this nation . War suspends the rules of moral obligation , and what is long suspended is in danger of being ...
... late proceedings we see very few traces of that generosity , humanity , and dignity of mind , which formerly characterized this nation . War suspends the rules of moral obligation , and what is long suspended is in danger of being ...
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... late been seduced or bullied , or into the appearance of which they have sunk through mere despair . They have been told that their dissent from violent measures is an encouragement to rebellion . Men of great presump- tion and little ...
... late been seduced or bullied , or into the appearance of which they have sunk through mere despair . They have been told that their dissent from violent measures is an encouragement to rebellion . Men of great presump- tion and little ...
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... late controversies , and treated as if they were the most contemptible and irrational of all things . I have heard it a hundred times very gravely alleged , that in order to keep power in wind , it was necessary , by preference , to ...
... late controversies , and treated as if they were the most contemptible and irrational of all things . I have heard it a hundred times very gravely alleged , that in order to keep power in wind , it was necessary , by preference , to ...
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... late coercive statutes , but for mutilating , by a positive law , the entireness of the legislative power of parliament , and cutting off from it the whole right of taxation ? I answer , because a different state of things re- quires a ...
... late coercive statutes , but for mutilating , by a positive law , the entireness of the legislative power of parliament , and cutting off from it the whole right of taxation ? I answer , because a different state of things re- quires a ...
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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.