The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Henry G. Bohn, 1855 - Great Britain |
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... conduct has given sufficient evidence that if I am a single day from my place , it is not owing to indolence or love of dissipation . The slightest hope of doing good is sufficient to recall me to what I quitted with regret . In ...
... conduct has given sufficient evidence that if I am a single day from my place , it is not owing to indolence or love of dissipation . The slightest hope of doing good is sufficient to recall me to what I quitted with regret . In ...
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Edmund Burke. the sad spectacle which our affairs and conduct exhibit to the scorn of Europe . We behold ( and it seems some people re- joice in beholding ) our native land , which used to sit the envied arbiter of all her neighbours ...
Edmund Burke. the sad spectacle which our affairs and conduct exhibit to the scorn of Europe . We behold ( and it seems some people re- joice in beholding ) our native land , which used to sit the envied arbiter of all her neighbours ...
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... conduct , at least , is conformable to our faculties . No man's life pays the forfeit of our rashness . No desolate widow weeps tears of blood over our ignorance . Scrupulous and sober in our well - grounded distrust of ourselves , we ...
... conduct , at least , is conformable to our faculties . No man's life pays the forfeit of our rashness . No desolate widow weeps tears of blood over our ignorance . Scrupulous and sober in our well - grounded distrust of ourselves , we ...
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... conducted state is the propensity of the people to resort to them . But when subjects , by a long course of such ill conduct , are once thoroughly inflamed , and the state itself violently distempered , the people must have some ...
... conducted state is the propensity of the people to resort to them . But when subjects , by a long course of such ill conduct , are once thoroughly inflamed , and the state itself violently distempered , the people must have some ...
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... conduct . When the dispute had gone to these last extremities , ( which no man laboured more to pre- vent than I did , ) the concessions which had satisfied in the beginning , could satisfy no longer ; because the violation of tacit ...
... conduct . When the dispute had gone to these last extremities , ( which no man laboured more to pre- vent than I did , ) the concessions which had satisfied in the beginning , could satisfy no longer ; because the violation of tacit ...
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Page 320 - 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 279 - 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 338 - 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 320 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. 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 279 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Page 320 - 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...
Page 321 - All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.
Page 497 - Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. — in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption, — in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite...
Page 279 - By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.
Page 306 - ... priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science; because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate; but that which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may arise even from th'e ill effects it produces in the beginning. The reverse also happens; and very plausible schemes, with very pleasing commencements, have often shameful and lamentable conclusions.