The Early Life, Correspondence and Writings of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, LL. D.: With a Transcript of the Minute Book of the Debating "Club" Founded by Him in the Trinity College, Dublin |
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... observe upon too . For , next to finery in a lady herself , the criticism of it in another's case is the highest satisfaction that can be ; and this is one way of indemnifying one's self for the plainness of one's habit ; so much for ...
... observe upon too . For , next to finery in a lady herself , the criticism of it in another's case is the highest satisfaction that can be ; and this is one way of indemnifying one's self for the plainness of one's habit ; so much for ...
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... observe that he insists largely on the pleasures that he enjoyed or hoped to enjoy , and on the perfection of the object of his desires . It is the loss which is always upper- most in his mind . The violent effects produced by Love ...
... observe that he insists largely on the pleasures that he enjoyed or hoped to enjoy , and on the perfection of the object of his desires . It is the loss which is always upper- most in his mind . The violent effects produced by Love ...
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... observe it . I must own that I cant with any freedom write better ; so you must excuse me in that part , and in point of style , but I hope to improve in that by degrees . I do not know to whom I could write with greater freedom and ...
... observe it . I must own that I cant with any freedom write better ; so you must excuse me in that part , and in point of style , but I hope to improve in that by degrees . I do not know to whom I could write with greater freedom and ...
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... observe they make no distinction of Genius , but the dull and bright minds both proceed the same road , and are equally punished if not successful . There is for those of riper years 1 Compare with Burke's letters to Shackleton , 14th ...
... observe they make no distinction of Genius , but the dull and bright minds both proceed the same road , and are equally punished if not successful . There is for those of riper years 1 Compare with Burke's letters to Shackleton , 14th ...
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... observe what agreement theirs have with those of men , and then to search their causes . 3rd . To compare both ; observing this grand maxim , that like effects spring from like causes . I might here enumerate more methods , but leave it ...
... observe what agreement theirs have with those of men , and then to search their causes . 3rd . To compare both ; observing this grand maxim , that like effects spring from like causes . I might here enumerate more methods , but leave it ...
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Page 226 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 264 - My sentence is for open war : of wiles, More unexpert, I boast not : them let those Contrive who need, or when they need, not now...
Page 101 - Methought I heard a voice cry " Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep" — the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.
Page 101 - Sleep no more ! Macbeth doth murder sleep, the innocent sleep; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave ' of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ; — Lady M. What do you mean ? Macb. Still it cried, Sleep no more ! to all the house : Glamis hath murdered sleep; and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more .
Page 264 - Main reason to persuade immediate war Did not dissuade me most, and seem to cast Ominous conjecture on the whole success...
Page 231 - It is now too apparent, that this great, this powerful, this formidable kingdom, is considered only as a province to a despicable Electorate; and that, in consequence of a scheme formed long ago, and invariably pursued, these troops are hired only to drain this unhappy nation of its money.
Page 107 - Against th' unwarlike Persian and the Mede, Whose hasty flight did, from a bloodless field, More spoils than honour to the victor yield. A race unconquer'd, by their clime made bold, The Caledonians, arm'd with want and cold, Have, by a fate indulgent to your fame, Been from all ages kept for you to tame. Whom the old Roman wall...
Page 401 - Merchant, being of sound mind, memory, and understanding, do make and publish this my last Will and Testament, in manner following: that is to say— I. I give and bequeath unto " The Contributors to the Pennsylvania Hospital...
Page 215 - It is reconciled in policy ; and politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature ; of which the reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part.
Page 14 - He had been educated (he said) as a protestant of the church of England by a dissenter who was an honour to his sect, though that sect was considered one of the purest. Under his eye he had read the Bible, morning, noon, and night, and had ever since been the happier and better man for such reading.