The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3Wells and Lilly, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... perhaps , call in vain , for new reformation . That he thought the French nation very unwise . What they valued themselves on , was a disgrace to them . They had gloried ( and some people in England had thought fit to take share in that ...
... perhaps , call in vain , for new reformation . That he thought the French nation very unwise . What they valued themselves on , was a disgrace to them . They had gloried ( and some people in England had thought fit to take share in that ...
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... I should ? It looks to me as if I were in a great crisis , not of the af- fairs of France alone , but all Europe , perhaps of more than & Europe . All circumstances taken together , the French re- 26 REFLECTIONS ON THE.
... I should ? It looks to me as if I were in a great crisis , not of the af- fairs of France alone , but all Europe , perhaps of more than & Europe . All circumstances taken together , the French re- 26 REFLECTIONS ON THE.
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... perhaps tell us they mean to say no more than that some of the king's predecessors have been called to the throne by some sort of choice ; and therefore he owes his crown to the choice of his people . Thus , by a miserable subterfuge ...
... perhaps tell us they mean to say no more than that some of the king's predecessors have been called to the throne by some sort of choice ; and therefore he owes his crown to the choice of his people . Thus , by a miserable subterfuge ...
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... perhaps impossible , to give limits to the mere abstract competence of the supreme power , such as was exercised by parliament at that time ; but the limits of a moral compe- tence , subjecting , even in powers more indisputably sove ...
... perhaps impossible , to give limits to the mere abstract competence of the supreme power , such as was exercised by parliament at that time ; but the limits of a moral compe- tence , subjecting , even in powers more indisputably sove ...
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... perhaps , did the sovereign legislature manifest a more tender regard to that fundamental principle of British constitutional policy , than at the time of the revo- lution , when it deviated from the direct line of hereditary succession ...
... perhaps , did the sovereign legislature manifest a more tender regard to that fundamental principle of British constitutional policy , than at the time of the revo- lution , when it deviated from the direct line of hereditary succession ...
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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...