A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With Extracts from His Writings, Band 1W. Blackwood & sons, 1840 |
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... equally evident , that if she does , it must be by the same vigour , and virtue , which then ensured her safety . When Burke wrote his immortal " Reflections on the French Revolution , " there were thousands in England as full of frenzy ...
... equally evident , that if she does , it must be by the same vigour , and virtue , which then ensured her safety . When Burke wrote his immortal " Reflections on the French Revolution , " there were thousands in England as full of frenzy ...
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... equally forcible against the existence of order ; and that the perfection of the infidel system would reason mankind into the uselessness of a Monarchy , as rapidly as into the burden of a Revelation . In a passage , which seems to come ...
... equally forcible against the existence of order ; and that the perfection of the infidel system would reason mankind into the uselessness of a Monarchy , as rapidly as into the burden of a Revelation . In a passage , which seems to come ...
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... equally against the insidious zeal which would substitute an affected love of country for pa- triotism ; and the insurrectionary rage which would cast off the mild dominion of England , for the licence of democracy at home . He finally ...
... equally against the insidious zeal which would substitute an affected love of country for pa- triotism ; and the insurrectionary rage which would cast off the mild dominion of England , for the licence of democracy at home . He finally ...
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... equally fortu- nate on both sides , was chiefly due to Mr Fitzher- bert , a man of birth and accomplishment , who had known Burke at Johnson's celebrated club . Of Fitz- herbert himself , Johnson has left the following graphic sketch ...
... equally fortu- nate on both sides , was chiefly due to Mr Fitzher- bert , a man of birth and accomplishment , who had known Burke at Johnson's celebrated club . Of Fitz- herbert himself , Johnson has left the following graphic sketch ...
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... equally obnoxious , or equally forgotten . One great faction will absorb all . A hundred - headed democracy will usurp the functions of government , and turn cabi- nets into bureaus for registering the plunder , or tribu- nals for ...
... equally obnoxious , or equally forgotten . One great faction will absorb all . A hundred - headed democracy will usurp the functions of government , and turn cabi- nets into bureaus for registering the plunder , or tribu- nals for ...
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Seite 150 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Seite 92 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Seite 100 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. 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.
Seite 100 - I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the I775O CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES. 29! haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit...
Seite 102 - ... deserts. If you drive the people from one place, they will carry on their annual tillage and remove with their flocks and herds to another. Many of the people in the back settlements are already little attached to particular situations. Already they have topped the Appalachian mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain, one vast, rich, level meadow; a square of five hundred miles.
Seite 92 - My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred...
Seite 99 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Seite 149 - ... than the opinions of many would go along with me. In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress, I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted.
Seite 101 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Seite 92 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but...