The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 5Little, Brown,, 1869 - Political science |
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... matter at a proper distance , and when the sharpness of re- cent impressions had been worn off , I might be bet ter able to form a just estimate of the value of my first opinions . I have just now read it over very coolly and de ...
... matter at a proper distance , and when the sharpness of re- cent impressions had been worn off , I might be bet ter able to form a just estimate of the value of my first opinions . I have just now read it over very coolly and de ...
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... . Viewing things in that light , my confidence in him is not increased , but totally destroyed , by those pro- ceedings . I cannot conceive it a matter of honor or duty ( but the direct contrary ) in any member CONDUCT OF THE MINORITY .
... . Viewing things in that light , my confidence in him is not increased , but totally destroyed , by those pro- ceedings . I cannot conceive it a matter of honor or duty ( but the direct contrary ) in any member CONDUCT OF THE MINORITY .
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... matters of delicacy and impor- tance , confidentially to communicate , thought proper to send Mr. Adair , as his representative , and with his cipher , to St. Petersburg , there to frustrate the ob- jects for which the minister from the ...
... matters of delicacy and impor- tance , confidentially to communicate , thought proper to send Mr. Adair , as his representative , and with his cipher , to St. Petersburg , there to frustrate the ob- jects for which the minister from the ...
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... matters , by which the House of Commons was ( in a crisis such as perhaps . Europe never stood ) to give assurances to our allies , strength to our government , and a check to the com- mon enemy of Europe , he substituted nothing but a ...
... matters , by which the House of Commons was ( in a crisis such as perhaps . Europe never stood ) to give assurances to our allies , strength to our government , and a check to the com- mon enemy of Europe , he substituted nothing but a ...
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... again travelled over , but much new inflam- matory matter was introduced . In particular , a charge was made , that Great Britain had not in- soever . terposed to prevent the last partition of Poland 24 OBSERVATIONS ON THE.
... again travelled over , but much new inflam- matory matter was introduced . In particular , a charge was made , that Great Britain had not in- soever . terposed to prevent the last partition of Poland 24 OBSERVATIONS ON 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.