The Works of Edmund Burke, Band 2C. C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 |
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... attempt , an undertaking that would ennoble the flights of the highest genius , and obtain pardon for the efforts of the meanest understanding . Struggling a good while with these thoughts , by degrees I felt myself more firm . I ...
... attempt , an undertaking that would ennoble the flights of the highest genius , and obtain pardon for the efforts of the meanest understanding . Struggling a good while with these thoughts , by degrees I felt myself more firm . I ...
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... attempt to separate them , would tear to pieces the contexture of the whole ; and if not entirely destroy , would very much depreciate the value of all the parts . I therefore consider these three denominations to be , what in effect ...
... attempt to separate them , would tear to pieces the contexture of the whole ; and if not entirely destroy , would very much depreciate the value of all the parts . I therefore consider these three denominations to be , what in effect ...
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... attempt to mend it and our sin far more salutary than our penitence . These , sir , are my reasons for not entertaining that high opinion of untried force , by which many gentlemen , for whose sentiments in other particulars I have ...
... attempt to mend it and our sin far more salutary than our penitence . These , sir , are my reasons for not entertaining that high opinion of untried force , by which many gentlemen , for whose sentiments in other particulars I have ...
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... attempt for a general massacre of suffrages ; an attempt , by a promiscuous carnage of friends and foes , to exterminate above two thousand votes , including seven hundred polled for the gentleman himself , who now complains , and who ...
... attempt for a general massacre of suffrages ; an attempt , by a promiscuous carnage of friends and foes , to exterminate above two thousand votes , including seven hundred polled for the gentleman himself , who now complains , and who ...
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... attempt to make it more . These are the cords of man . Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest ; and not on metaphysical speculations . Aristotle , the great master of reasoning , cau- tions us , and with great weight ...
... attempt to make it more . These are the cords of man . Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest ; and not on metaphysical speculations . Aristotle , the great master of reasoning , cau- tions us , and with great weight ...
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Seite 33 - First, the people of the colonies are descendants of Englishmen. England, Sir, is a nation, which still, I hope, respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Seite 457 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell.
Seite 30 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Seite 48 - If then the removal of the causes of this spirit of American liberty be, for the greater part, or rather entirely, impracticable; if the ideas of criminal process be inapplicable, or, if applicable, are in the highest degree inexpedient, what way yet remains? No way is open, but the third and last — to comply with the American spirit as necessary; or, if you please to submit to it, as a necessary evil.
Seite 72 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Seite 82 - That the colonies and plantations of Great Britain in North America, consisting of fourteen separate governments, and containing two millions and upwards of free inhabitants, have not had the liberty and privilege of electing and sending any knights and burgesses, or others, to represent them in the high court of parliament.
Seite 37 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Seite 27 - The trade with America alone is now within less than £. 500,000 of being equal to what this great commercial nation, England, carried on at the beginning of this century with the whole world ! If I had taken the largest year of those on your table, it would rather have exceeded. But, it will be said, is not this American trade an unnatural protuberance, that has drawn the juices from the rest of the body ? The reverse. It is the very food that has nourished every -other part into its present magnitude.
Seite 68 - An act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town and within the harbor of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America...
Seite 49 - What signify all those titles and all those arms? Of what avail are they, when the reason of the thing tells me that the assertion of my title is the loss of my suit, and that I could do nothing but wound myself by the use of my own weapons?