The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1John West and O.C. Greenleaf, 1806 - Great Britain |
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... less popular description , which he designed for private circulation , in quarters where he supposed they might produce most benefit to the community ; but which , with some other papers , have been printed since his death , from copies ...
... less popular description , which he designed for private circulation , in quarters where he supposed they might produce most benefit to the community ; but which , with some other papers , have been printed since his death , from copies ...
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... less than twelve hundred thousand lives must have been sacrificed ; but no sooner had he fallen himself a sacrifice to his vices , than a thousand breaches were made for ruin to enter , and give the last hand to this scene of misery and ...
... less than twelve hundred thousand lives must have been sacrificed ; but no sooner had he fallen himself a sacrifice to his vices , than a thousand breaches were made for ruin to enter , and give the last hand to this scene of misery and ...
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... less than three millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government was con- troverted between the republican and tyrannical parties , and the ...
... less than three millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government was con- troverted between the republican and tyrannical parties , and the ...
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... less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very small part , of the havock caused by the Roman ambi- tion . The war with Mithridates was very little less bloody ; that prince cut off at one ...
... less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very small part , of the havock caused by the Roman ambi- tion . The war with Mithridates was very little less bloody ; that prince cut off at one ...
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... that part only on the point of time when they received the great and final stroke which made them no more a nation ; a stroke which is allowed to have VOL . I. E cut off little less than two millions of that people NATURAL SOCIETY . 17.
... that part only on the point of time when they received the great and final stroke which made them no more a nation ; a stroke which is allowed to have VOL . I. E cut off little less than two millions of that people NATURAL SOCIETY . 17.
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Page 110 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 111 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 320 - 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 488 - The Parliament of Great Britain sits at the head of her extensive empire in two capacities: one as the local legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power; the other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial character, in which as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferior legislatures, and guides and controls them all, without annihilating any.
Page 486 - Be content to bind America by laws of trade; you have always done it. Let this be your reason for binding their trade. Do not burden them by taxes ; you were not used to do so from the beginning. Let this be your reason for not taxing. These are the arguments of states and kingdoms. Leave the rest to the schools; for there only they may be discussed with safety.
Page 444 - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.
Page 163 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out 140 With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 107 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 208 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Page 107 - When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes. Every one will be sensible of this who considers how greatly night adds to our dread in all cases of danger, and how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect minds which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings.