The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - Great Britain |
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Page xvi
... sion or within their reach , to Messrs . Rivingtons , -a respect and kindness to his memory which will be thankfully acknowledged by those friends to whom , in dying , he committed the sacred trust of his reputa- tion . ADVERTISEMENT TO ...
... sion or within their reach , to Messrs . Rivingtons , -a respect and kindness to his memory which will be thankfully acknowledged by those friends to whom , in dying , he committed the sacred trust of his reputa- tion . ADVERTISEMENT TO ...
Page 45
... sion in all respects ; what slave so passive , what bigot so blind , what enthusiast so headlong , what politician so hardened , as to stand up in defence of a system calculated for a curse to mankind ? a curse under which they smart ...
... sion in all respects ; what slave so passive , what bigot so blind , what enthusiast so headlong , what politician so hardened , as to stand up in defence of a system calculated for a curse to mankind ? a curse under which they smart ...
Page 49
... sion from party government as no other tyranny can parallel . We behold daily the most important rights , rights upon which all the others depend , we behold these rights determined in the last resort , without the least attention even ...
... sion from party government as no other tyranny can parallel . We behold daily the most important rights , rights upon which all the others depend , we behold these rights determined in the last resort , without the least attention even ...
Page 95
... sion . There are others so continually in the agitation of gross and merely sensual pleasures , or so occupied in the low drudgery of avarice , or so heated in the chase of honors and distinction , that their minds , which had been used ...
... sion . There are others so continually in the agitation of gross and merely sensual pleasures , or so occupied in the low drudgery of avarice , or so heated in the chase of honors and distinction , that their minds , which had been used ...
Page 115
... particular heightenings , gives us no pos- itive pleasure in the enjoyment ; but absolute and entire solitude , that is , the total and perpetual exclu- sion from all society , is as great a positive ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL . 115.
... particular heightenings , gives us no pos- itive pleasure in the enjoyment ; but absolute and entire solitude , that is , the total and perpetual exclu- sion from all society , is as great a positive ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL . 115.
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