The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 5Little, Brown,, 1869 - Political science |
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... England as included in Europe ) from a truly frightful revolution . For this I have been censured , as receiving through weakness , or spreading through fraud and artifice , a false alarm . Whatever others may think of the matter , that ...
... England as included in Europe ) from a truly frightful revolution . For this I have been censured , as receiving through weakness , or spreading through fraud and artifice , a false alarm . Whatever others may think of the matter , that ...
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... England for the intrigues of foreign courts in our affairs . This is a sore evil , —an evil from which , before this time , England was more free than any other nation . Noth- ing can preserve us from that evil which connects cabinet ...
... England for the intrigues of foreign courts in our affairs . This is a sore evil , —an evil from which , before this time , England was more free than any other nation . Noth- ing can preserve us from that evil which connects cabinet ...
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... England , and when every motive of moral prudence called for the discouragement of so- cieties formed for the increase of popular pretensions to power and direction . 3. When the proceedings of this society of the Friends of the People ...
... England , and when every motive of moral prudence called for the discouragement of so- cieties formed for the increase of popular pretensions to power and direction . 3. When the proceedings of this society of the Friends of the People ...
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... England , Mr. Fox did not ( as had been usual in cases of far less moment ) call together any meeting of the Duke of Portland's friends in the House of Commons , for the purpose of taking their opinion on the conduct to be pursued in ...
... England , Mr. Fox did not ( as had been usual in cases of far less moment ) call together any meeting of the Duke of Portland's friends in the House of Commons , for the purpose of taking their opinion on the conduct to be pursued in ...
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... England as a libel on the nation . As to the danger from abroad , on the first day of the session he said little or nothing upon the subject . He contented himself with defending the ruling factions in France , and with accusing the ...
... England as a libel on the nation . As to the danger from abroad , on the first day of the session he said little or nothing upon the subject . He contented himself with defending the ruling factions in France , and with accusing the ...
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Page 208 - I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me; they who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors.
Page 310 - Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them.
Page 290 - ... suffered to be daubed over that measure. Some years after, it was my fortune to converse with many of the principal actors against that minister, and with those who principally excited that clamour None of them, no not one, did in...
Page 389 - And turn the unwilling steeds another way ; Benighted wanderers, the forest o'er, Curse the saved candle and unopening door ; . While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat.
Page 182 - He was a man of admirable parts ; of general knowledge ; of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort- of business ; of infinite wit and pleasantry ; of a delightful temper ; and with a mind most perfectly disinterested. But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command that the time required.
Page 156 - And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity, they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
Page 187 - They shake the public security ; they menace private enjoyment. They dwarf the growth of the young ; they break the quiet of the old. If we travel, they stop our way. They infest us in town ; they pursue us to the country.
Page 286 - All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
Page 174 - Why will they not let me remain in obscurity and inaction ? Are they apprehensive, that, if an atom of me remains, the sect has something to fear? Must I be annihilated, lest, like old John Zisca's, my skin might be made into a drum, to animate Europe to eternal battle against a tyranny that threatens to overwhelm all Europe and all the human race...
Page 206 - ... by an exposure to the influence of heaven in a long flow of generations, from the hard, acidulous, metallic tincture of the spring.