The Wisdom of Burke: Extracts from His Speeches and WritingsJohn Murray, 1886 - 261 Seiten |
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... considered as one of the kinds of that virtue , there is , however , another and a higher economy . Economy is a dis- tributive virtue , and consists not in saving , but in selection . Parsimony requires no providence , no sagacity , no ...
... considered as one of the kinds of that virtue , there is , however , another and a higher economy . Economy is a dis- tributive virtue , and consists not in saving , but in selection . Parsimony requires no providence , no sagacity , no ...
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... considered . Peace may be made as unadvisedly as war . Nothing is so rash as fear ; and the councils of pusillanimity very rarely put off , whilst they are always sure to aggravate , the evils from which they would fly . - First Letter ...
... considered . Peace may be made as unadvisedly as war . Nothing is so rash as fear ; and the councils of pusillanimity very rarely put off , whilst they are always sure to aggravate , the evils from which they would fly . - First Letter ...
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... may end in our ruin . - Re- marks on Policy of Allies . THE BRITISH EMPIRE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS A WHOLE . I think I can trace all the calamities of D this country to the single source of our not having EDMUND BURKE 33.
... may end in our ruin . - Re- marks on Policy of Allies . THE BRITISH EMPIRE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS A WHOLE . I think I can trace all the calamities of D this country to the single source of our not having EDMUND BURKE 33.
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... considered as the instruments of a govern- ment adverse to the civil interests of their flock . If they let things take their course , they will be represented as colluding with sedition , or at least tacitly encouraging it . If they ...
... considered as the instruments of a govern- ment adverse to the civil interests of their flock . If they let things take their course , they will be represented as colluding with sedition , or at least tacitly encouraging it . If they ...
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... considered as a thing of little consequence either to individuals or to governments . Nations are not primarily ruled by laws ; less by violence .. The laws reach but a very little way . - Thoughts on Pres . Dis- contents . • Nations ...
... considered as a thing of little consequence either to individuals or to governments . Nations are not primarily ruled by laws ; less by violence .. The laws reach but a very little way . - Thoughts on Pres . Dis- contents . • Nations ...
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abstract Acts of Uniformity America amongst Assembly authority become cause choice Church circumstances civil society commonwealth conduct consider constitution corruption danger Discontents disposition Dissenters duty EDMUND BURKE England establishment everything evil exist France freedom French Affairs gentlemen give glory habits happiness honour House of Commons human idea interest Ireland JACOBINISM justice kind Langrishe Letter on Reg liberty mankind manners means Member of Nat ment metaphysically mind monarchy moral nation nature never Noble Lord object Old Whigs opinion Parliament parties passions Peace permanent political Popery Laws popular prejudice presumption principles prudence reason Reflect reformation Regicide religion render restraint ruin secure sedition Sheriffs of Bristol sort speculation Speech at Guildhall Speech on Concil spirit statesman things Thoughts on Pres tion toleration true truth turb Unitarians vice virtue vulgar wealth whilst whole wisdom wise
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 149 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Seite 150 - All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.
Seite 150 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
Seite 110 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties ; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections ; keeping inseparable, and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.
Seite 51 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should be frequently thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Seite 29 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you.
Seite 28 - My hold of the Colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.
Seite 97 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Seite 119 - Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites...
Seite 51 - Government is not made in virtue of natural rights, which may and do exist in total independence of it; and exist in much greater clearness, and in a much greater degree of abstract perfection : but their abstract perfection is their practical defect.