BurkeMacmillan, 1879 - 216 Seiten |
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... Whigs have detested him as the destroyer of his party . One undiscriminating panegyrist calls him the most profound and compre- hensive of political philosophers that has yet existed in the world . Another and more distinguished writer ...
... Whigs have detested him as the destroyer of his party . One undiscriminating panegyrist calls him the most profound and compre- hensive of political philosophers that has yet existed in the world . Another and more distinguished writer ...
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... Whig party ; but because he added to the permanent considera- tions of wise political thought , and to the maxims of wise practice in great affairs , and because he imprints himself upon us with a magnificence and elevation of ...
... Whig party ; but because he added to the permanent considera- tions of wise political thought , and to the maxims of wise practice in great affairs , and because he imprints himself upon us with a magnificence and elevation of ...
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... Whig party , to show , as Burke wrote to his chief , how different it was in spirit and composition from " the Bedfords , the Grenvilles , and other knots , who are combined for no public purpose , but only as a means of furthering with ...
... Whig party , to show , as Burke wrote to his chief , how different it was in spirit and composition from " the Bedfords , the Grenvilles , and other knots , who are combined for no public purpose , but only as a means of furthering with ...
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... Whig party of a later date . Swift's pamphlet is close , strenuous , persuasive , and full of telling strokes ; but nobody need read it to - day , except the historical student , or a member of the Peace Society , in search of the most ...
... Whig party of a later date . Swift's pamphlet is close , strenuous , persuasive , and full of telling strokes ; but nobody need read it to - day , except the historical student , or a member of the Peace Society , in search of the most ...
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... Whig combinations , and making his own cabinets . George III . was only continuing the purpose of his father and his grandfather ; and there is no reason to believe that he went more elaborately to work to obtain his ends . It is when ...
... Whig combinations , and making his own cabinets . George III . was only continuing the purpose of his father and his grandfather ; and there is no reason to believe that he went more elaborately to work to obtain his ends . It is when ...
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Seite 199 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Seite 104 - Animated with all the avarice of age and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in one after another, wave after wave, and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting.
Seite 75 - 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 75 - 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 104 - Here the manufacturer and husbandman will bless the just and punctual hand that in India has torn the cloth from the loom, or wrested the scanty portion of rice and salt from the peasant of Bengal, or wrung from him the very opium in which he forgot his oppressions and his oppressor.
Seite 111 - it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched state indeed when your company would not be a delight to me.' Mr. Burke, in a tremulous voice, expressive of being very tenderly affected, replied. ' My dear Sir, you have always been too good to me.
Seite 8 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalise the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Seite 85 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Seite 146 - But whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe.
Seite 30 - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies : that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand...