The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, Volume 1S. Holdsworth, 1837 - Great Britain |
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... matter as Mr. Burke , ) scarcely any violence of language was to be wondered at . There is a remarkable admission of this , contained in one of Cowper's letters . It has never , so far as we know , been referred to ; yet as coming from ...
... matter as Mr. Burke , ) scarcely any violence of language was to be wondered at . There is a remarkable admission of this , contained in one of Cowper's letters . It has never , so far as we know , been referred to ; yet as coming from ...
Page xlvi
... matter what his subject - no matter what the modification of thought which demands expression - he has always at command language at once the most appropriate and the most beautiful . As to the materials of his style , his vocabulary ...
... matter what his subject - no matter what the modification of thought which demands expression - he has always at command language at once the most appropriate and the most beautiful . As to the materials of his style , his vocabulary ...
Page xlix
... matter , ) in all clever men . We say this will not mend the matter , since , by clever men , the critic can hardly mean , all men as clever ( we detest the word as applied to Burke , but it is not of our choosing ) as Burke ; for then ...
... matter , ) in all clever men . We say this will not mend the matter , since , by clever men , the critic can hardly mean , all men as clever ( we detest the word as applied to Burke , but it is not of our choosing ) as Burke ; for then ...
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... matter , during upwards of twenty - five years ' publick service , and in as great a variety of important events as perhaps have ever happened in the same number of years , it would appear a little hard , in order to charge such a man ...
... matter , during upwards of twenty - five years ' publick service , and in as great a variety of important events as perhaps have ever happened in the same number of years , it would appear a little hard , in order to charge such a man ...
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... matter full of difficulties : in which a considerate man will not be too ready to decide ; a prudent man too ready to undertake ; or an honest man too ready to promise . They do not respect the publick nor themselves , who engage for ...
... matter full of difficulties : in which a considerate man will not be too ready to decide ; a prudent man too ready to undertake ; or an honest man too ready to promise . They do not respect the publick nor themselves , who engage for ...
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Page 186 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page lxvi - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
Page 332 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a...
Page liv - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences ; we give and take ; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others; and, we chuse rather to be happy citizens, than subtle disputants.
Page 40 - 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: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes, There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page lxv - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, King's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure...
Page 186 - We know, that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Page 187 - ... them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, sir, to commend the superior morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it, but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so, and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with an higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward.
Page 203 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have ; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience.
Page 185 - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.