A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With Extracts from His Writings, Volume 2W. Blackwood & sons, 1840 |
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... France- Remarks on the Constitutional Society - Burke's Character of Cromwell , CHAPTER II . Page 1 Clubs in England - Dr Price - Memorable Description of the Queen of France , CHAPTER III . The Democracy - Fate of the Philosophic ...
... France- Remarks on the Constitutional Society - Burke's Character of Cromwell , CHAPTER II . Page 1 Clubs in England - Dr Price - Memorable Description of the Queen of France , CHAPTER III . The Democracy - Fate of the Philosophic ...
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... French Revolution , CHAPTER V. Page 68 Opulence of France under the Bourbons - Principle of Jacobinism , Spirit of Democracy , Rapine - Public Confiscation , CHAPTER VI . Portrait of the true Legislator - Sketch of Rousseau - Burke's ri ...
... French Revolution , CHAPTER V. Page 68 Opulence of France under the Bourbons - Principle of Jacobinism , Spirit of Democracy , Rapine - Public Confiscation , CHAPTER VI . Portrait of the true Legislator - Sketch of Rousseau - Burke's ri ...
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With Extracts from His Writings George Croly. MEMOIR OF THE POLITICAL LIFE OF THE RIGHT HON . EDMUND BURK E. CHAPTER I. Burke's Letters to Mercer - Robbery of the Church of France- Remarks on the Constitutional Society - Burke's ...
With Extracts from His Writings George Croly. MEMOIR OF THE POLITICAL LIFE OF THE RIGHT HON . EDMUND BURK E. CHAPTER I. Burke's Letters to Mercer - Robbery of the Church of France- Remarks on the Constitutional Society - Burke's ...
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... France . The newspapers represent you , sir , as com- plaining that the National Assembly had totally sub- verted their ancient form of Government , and that they had also subverted their Church . To complain of the subversion of a ...
... France . The newspapers represent you , sir , as com- plaining that the National Assembly had totally sub- verted their ancient form of Government , and that they had also subverted their Church . To complain of the subversion of a ...
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... France , ) comes under this reformer's especial super- vision . " With respect , " says he , " to the subversion of the Church , it does not appear that any change in its doctrine has been attempted . In its discipline , there may be ...
... France , ) comes under this reformer's especial super- vision . " With respect , " says he , " to the subversion of the Church , it does not appear that any change in its doctrine has been attempted . In its discipline , there may be ...
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Page 41 - 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. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 150 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 29 - They have a right to the fruits of their industry, and to the means of making their industry fruitful. They have a right to the acquisitions of their parents, to the nourishment and improvement of their offspring, to instruction in life and to consolation in death. Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.
Page 56 - Learning paid back what it received to nobility and to priesthood; and paid it with usury, by enlarging their ideas and by furnishing their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union and their proper place! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master! Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Page 31 - ... it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes.
Page 174 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of...
Page 98 - The strong struggle in every individual to preserve possession of what he has found to belong to him, and to distinguish him is one of the securities against injustice and despotism implanted in our nature. It operates as an instinct to secure property, and to preserve communities in a settled state. What is there to shock in this? Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Page 175 - ... stagnant wasting reservoir of merit in me, or in any ancestry. He had in himself a salient living spring of generous and manly action. Every day he lived, he would have repurchased the bounty of the crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he had received. He was made a public creature, and had no enjoyment whatever but in the performance of some duty. At this exigent moment the loss of a finished man is not easily supplied.
Page 29 - One of the first motives to civil society, and which becomes one of its fundamental rules, is, that no man should be judge in his own cause. By this each person has at once divested himself of the first fundamental right of uncovenanted man, that is, to judge for himself, and to assert his own cause.
Page 182 - Cross, alive as he is, and thinking no harm in the world, he is divided into rumps, and sirloins, and briskets, and into all sorts of pieces for roasting, boiling, and stewing, that, all the while they are measuring him, his Grace is measuring me, — is invidiously comparing the bounty of the crown with the deserts of the defender of his order, and in the same moment fawning on those who have the knife half out of the sheath? Poor innocent ! " Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And...