The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 |
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... possession of the law of nations with regard to war . Commanders would receive no benefits at their hands , because they could make no return for them . Who has ever heard of capitulation , and parole of honour , and exchange of ...
... possession of the law of nations with regard to war . Commanders would receive no benefits at their hands , because they could make no return for them . Who has ever heard of capitulation , and parole of honour , and exchange of ...
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... . Has any of these gentlemen , who are so eager to govern all man- kind , showed himself possessed of the first qualification to- wards government , some knowledge of the object , and LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 15.
... . Has any of these gentlemen , who are so eager to govern all man- kind , showed himself possessed of the first qualification to- wards government , some knowledge of the object , and LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 15.
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... possession of the minds of violent men . The whole of those maxims , upon which we have made and continued this war , must be abandoned . Nothing indeed ( for I would not deceive you ) can place us in our former situation . That hope ...
... possession of the minds of violent men . The whole of those maxims , upon which we have made and continued this war , must be abandoned . Nothing indeed ( for I would not deceive you ) can place us in our former situation . That hope ...
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... possession of an unlimited legislative power over the colonies . I could not open the statute book without seeing the actual exercise of it , more or less , in all cases whatsoever . This possession passed with me for a title . It does ...
... possession of an unlimited legislative power over the colonies . I could not open the statute book without seeing the actual exercise of it , more or less , in all cases whatsoever . This possession passed with me for a title . It does ...
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... possessed of no right at all . I see no abstract reason , which can be given , why the same power , which made and repealed the high - commission court and the star - chamber , might not revive them again ; and these courts , warned by ...
... possessed of no right at all . I see no abstract reason , which can be given , why the same power , which made and repealed the high - commission court and the star - chamber , might not revive them again ; and these courts , warned by ...
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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.