The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Band 1G. Dearborn, 1835 |
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... attempt as he could at supplying the void ; especially because the insufficiency of our resources for the continu- ance of the war was understood to have been the principal objection urged against the two former " Letters on the ...
... attempt as he could at supplying the void ; especially because the insufficiency of our resources for the continu- ance of the war was understood to have been the principal objection urged against the two former " Letters on the ...
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... attempt made to reduce it to some certain standard . The rule laid down for the discharge of this task was , that when- ever Mr. Burke could be perceived to have been uniform in his mode of spelling , that was considered as decisive ...
... attempt made to reduce it to some certain standard . The rule laid down for the discharge of this task was , that when- ever Mr. Burke could be perceived to have been uniform in his mode of spelling , that was considered as decisive ...
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... attempt to cure the tyranny , is to change the tyrant . This is , and always was the case , for the greater part . In some countries , however , were found men of more penetration ; who discovered , " that to live by one man's will ...
... attempt to cure the tyranny , is to change the tyrant . This is , and always was the case , for the greater part . In some countries , however , were found men of more penetration ; who discovered , " that to live by one man's will ...
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... attempt to avenge myself , the whole force of that society is ready to complete my ruin . A good parson once said , that where mystery begins , religion ends . Cannot I say , as truly at least of human laws , that where mystery begins ...
... attempt to avenge myself , the whole force of that society is ready to complete my ruin . A good parson once said , that where mystery begins , religion ends . Cannot I say , as truly at least of human laws , that where mystery begins ...
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... attempt to fly , when we can scarcely pretend to creep . In considering any complex matter , we ought to examine every distinct ingredient in the com- position , one by one ; and reduce every thing to the utmost simplicity ; since the ...
... attempt to fly , when we can scarcely pretend to creep . In considering any complex matter , we ought to examine every distinct ingredient in the com- position , one by one ; and reduce every thing to the utmost simplicity ; since the ...
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Seite xii - 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.
Seite 479 - 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 246 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Seite 246 - 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. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Seite 488 - 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.
Seite 226 - 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 xxix - Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Seite 478 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Seite 228 - Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government. . Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution ; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system.
Seite 219 - 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. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs ; and, above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own.