The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflectionsJ. Sharpe, 1821 - British prose literature |
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... direct tendency of their doc- trines , then equivocations and slippery constructions come into play . When they say the king owes his crown to the choice of his people , and is therefore the only lawful sovereign in the world , they ...
... direct tendency of their doc- trines , then equivocations and slippery constructions come into play . When they say the king owes his crown to the choice of his people , and is therefore the only lawful sovereign in the world , they ...
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... direct line of hereditary succes- sion . The crown was carried somewhat out of the line in which it had before moved ; but the new line was derived from the same stock . It was still a line of hereditary descent ; still an hereditary de ...
... direct line of hereditary succes- sion . The crown was carried somewhat out of the line in which it had before moved ; but the new line was derived from the same stock . It was still a line of hereditary descent ; still an hereditary de ...
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... direct opposition to one of the wisest and most beautiful parts of our constitution , that " a king is no more than the first servant of the public , cre- ated by it , and responsible to it . " Ill would our ancestors at the revolution ...
... direct opposition to one of the wisest and most beautiful parts of our constitution , that " a king is no more than the first servant of the public , cre- ated by it , and responsible to it . " Ill would our ancestors at the revolution ...
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... , and every moment of its existence at the discretion of the crown to continue , prorogue , or dissolve us ? The power of the house of commons , direct or indirect , is indeed great ; and long may it be able 62 BURKE'S REFLECTIONS .
... , and every moment of its existence at the discretion of the crown to continue , prorogue , or dissolve us ? The power of the house of commons , direct or indirect , is indeed great ; and long may it be able 62 BURKE'S REFLECTIONS .
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... direct or indirect , to fit the man to the duty . I do not hesitate to say , that the road to eminence and power from obscure condition , ought not to be made too easy , nor a thing too much of course . If rare merit be the rarest of ...
... direct or indirect , to fit the man to the duty . I do not hesitate to say , that the road to eminence and power from obscure condition , ought not to be made too easy , nor a thing too much of course . If rare merit be the rarest of ...
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Page 135 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. 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.
Page 107 - But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which by a bland assimilation incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason.
Page 106 - 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.
Page 105 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Page 82 - 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.
Page 122 - Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit : and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
Page 11 - I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the object, as it stands, stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to...
Page 47 - ... together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Page 48 - Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.
Page 47 - 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.