The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Band 6Henry G. Bohn, 1856 |
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Seite 337 - This voice was repeated by the next, and in a moment it circulated through this innumerable people, which rung with the acclamation of
Seite 107 - And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
Seite 114 - A statesman, never losing sight of principles, is to be guided by circumstances ; and judging contrary to the exigencies of the moment, he may ruin his country for ever.
Seite 515 - Accordingly, on the same day, " It is declared and ordered, by the lords spiritual and temporal in parliament assembled, that the...
Seite 524 - An Act for establishing certain Regulations for the better Management of the Affairs of the East India Company, as well in India as in Europe...
Seite 115 - An alliance between church and state in a Christian commonwealth, is, in my opinion, an idle and a fanciful speculation. An alliance is between two things that are in their nature distinct and independent, such as between two sovereign states. But in a Christian commonwealth, the church and the state are one and the same thing, being different integral parts of the same whole.
Seite 146 - Peerage but this — our Constitution is a prescriptive Constitution ; it is a Constitution, whose sole authority is, that it has existed time out of mind.
Seite 406 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseized, or outlawed, or banished, or any ways destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor will we send upon him, unless by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Seite 21 - ... a superior law, which it is not in the power of any community, or of the whole race of man, to alter. — I mean the will of Him who gave us our nature, and in giving impressed an invariable law upon it.