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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... virtues long have made their home , Where Courtesy's stream does without flattery flow ; And the just use of Wealth ... virtue , 1 Bissett narrates the same incident , which he said he had " from a respectable Irish gentleman , who ...
... virtues long have made their home , Where Courtesy's stream does without flattery flow ; And the just use of Wealth ... virtue , 1 Bissett narrates the same incident , which he said he had " from a respectable Irish gentleman , who ...
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... virtue for its guide . " For love of soul doth love of body pass As much as purest gold surmounts the meanest brass . " I send the letter by my brother's hand , Receive the bearer for the sender's sake1 , SPENCER P.S. I am surprised ...
... virtue for its guide . " For love of soul doth love of body pass As much as purest gold surmounts the meanest brass . " I send the letter by my brother's hand , Receive the bearer for the sender's sake1 , SPENCER P.S. I am surprised ...
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... Virtue of Tar Water , " Dublin , Sold by M. Cooper , price 1/5 . A widespread belief in its virtues existed in Dublin circles . Sir Thomas Prior ( founder of the Royal Dublin Society ) published " An Authentic Narrative of the Success ...
... Virtue of Tar Water , " Dublin , Sold by M. Cooper , price 1/5 . A widespread belief in its virtues existed in Dublin circles . Sir Thomas Prior ( founder of the Royal Dublin Society ) published " An Authentic Narrative of the Success ...
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... virtues sufficient to make him loved and esteemed by all that know him . Were he a peer or one who possessed any eminent employment in the State , I would think no crime in giving him a little spice of that flattery , but as he is a ...
... virtues sufficient to make him loved and esteemed by all that know him . Were he a peer or one who possessed any eminent employment in the State , I would think no crime in giving him a little spice of that flattery , but as he is a ...
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... virtues , and which rendered him so justly the darling of the people . Go , dear youth , be happy in whatever part of the world you shall range , let the angels who guard the just be your protectors among your enemies ; let them guard ...
... virtues , and which rendered him so justly the darling of the people . Go , dear youth , be happy in whatever part of the world you shall range , let the angels who guard the just be your protectors among your enemies ; let them guard ...
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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.