The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflectionsJ. Sharpe, 1821 - British prose literature |
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... virtue and wisdom , beyond the vulgar practice of the hour : and you would have risen with the example to whose imitation you aspired . Respecting your forefathers , you would have been taught to respect yourselves . You would not have ...
... virtue and wisdom , beyond the vulgar practice of the hour : and you would have risen with the example to whose imitation you aspired . Respecting your forefathers , you would have been taught to respect yourselves . You would not have ...
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... virtue , not to overlay it ; you would have had a liberal order of commons , to emulate and recruit that nobility ; you would have had a protected , satisfied , laborious , and obe- dient people , taught to seek and to recognize the ...
... virtue , not to overlay it ; you would have had a liberal order of commons , to emulate and recruit that nobility ; you would have had a protected , satisfied , laborious , and obe- dient people , taught to seek and to recognize the ...
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... virtue to her interest , but she has aban- doned her interest that she might prostitute her virtue . All other nations have begun the fabric of a new government , or the reformation of an old , by establishing originally , or by ...
... virtue to her interest , but she has aban- doned her interest that she might prostitute her virtue . All other nations have begun the fabric of a new government , or the reformation of an old , by establishing originally , or by ...
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... virtue and wisdom of a whole people collected into a focus , would pause and hesitate in condemning things even of the very worst aspect . Instead of blameable , they would appear only my- sterious . But no name , no power , no function ...
... virtue and wisdom of a whole people collected into a focus , would pause and hesitate in condemning things even of the very worst aspect . Instead of blameable , they would appear only my- sterious . But no name , no power , no function ...
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... virtue as very rarely appears in the world , and for that reason cannot enter into calcu- lation , will prevent the men of talents disseminated through it from becoming only the expert instru- ments of absurd projects ! If , what is the ...
... virtue as very rarely appears in the world , and for that reason cannot enter into calcu- lation , will prevent the men of talents disseminated through it from becoming only the expert instru- ments of absurd projects ! If , what is the ...
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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.