The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3Wells and Lilly, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... character of despotism insinuated itself into every court of Europe — the same spirit of dispro- portioned magnificence - the same love of standing armies , above the ability of the people . In particular , our then sovereigns , King ...
... character of despotism insinuated itself into every court of Europe — the same spirit of dispro- portioned magnificence - the same love of standing armies , above the ability of the people . In particular , our then sovereigns , King ...
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... character knows no medium , is , with regard to government , a danger from anarchy ; a danger of being led through an admiration of successful fraud and violence , to an imitation of the excesses of an irrational , unprincipled ...
... character knows no medium , is , with regard to government , a danger from anarchy ; a danger of being led through an admiration of successful fraud and violence , to an imitation of the excesses of an irrational , unprincipled ...
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... character of citizen and soldier . But as applied to the events which had hap- pened in France , where the abstract principle was clothed with its circumstances , he thought that his friend would agree with him , that what was done ...
... character of citizen and soldier . But as applied to the events which had hap- pened in France , where the abstract principle was clothed with its circumstances , he thought that his friend would agree with him , that what was done ...
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... character and sen- timents , in order to derive a credit to their destructive ma- chinations . Mr. Sheridan then ... characters as those of the Marquis de la Fayette and Mr. Bailly . Mr. Burke said that he did not libel the national ...
... character and sen- timents , in order to derive a credit to their destructive ma- chinations . Mr. Sheridan then ... characters as those of the Marquis de la Fayette and Mr. Bailly . Mr. Burke said that he did not libel the national ...
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... character they leave , and of the character they assume . Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling , and inex- perienced in all its affairs , on which they pronounce with so much confidence , they have ...
... character they leave , and of the character they assume . Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling , and inex- perienced in all its affairs , on which they pronounce with so much confidence , they have ...
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Page 94 - 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.
Page 51 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 50 - You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Page 95 - Little did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream...
Page 96 - 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. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off.
Page 64 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind.
Page 51 - 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.
Page 67 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Page 95 - 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 grossnesa.
Page 84 - I have lived to it, and I could almost say, " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition and error — I have lived to see the rights of men better understood than ever, and nations panting for liberty which seemed to have lost the idea of it ; I have lived to see thirty millions of people, indignant and resolute, spurning at slavery, and demanding liberty with an irresistible...