The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 5Little, Brown,, 1877 - Great Britain |
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... force , with regard both to persons and things . During a period of four years , the state of the world , except for some few and short intervals , has filled me with a good deal of serious inquietude . I considered a general war ...
... force , with regard both to persons and things . During a period of four years , the state of the world , except for some few and short intervals , has filled me with a good deal of serious inquietude . I considered a general war ...
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... force the king to a separate peace . The crown could not , in that case , have any use of its judgment . Parliament could not possess more judgment than the crown , when besieged ( as Mr. Fox proposed to Mr. Gurney ) by the cries of the ...
... force the king to a separate peace . The crown could not , in that case , have any use of its judgment . Parliament could not possess more judgment than the crown , when besieged ( as Mr. Fox proposed to Mr. Gurney ) by the cries of the ...
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... ; - here was a motion as directly made to force the crown to put an end to it before a blow had been struck . The efforts of the faction have so prevailed that some of his Grace's nearest friends have actual- ly CONDUCT OF THE MINORITY .
... ; - here was a motion as directly made to force the crown to put an end to it before a blow had been struck . The efforts of the faction have so prevailed that some of his Grace's nearest friends have actual- ly CONDUCT OF THE MINORITY .
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... force to the very doors , if not into the very heart , of our country . To this hour he always speaks of every thought of overturning the French Jacobinism by force , on the part of any power whatsoever , as an attempt unjust and cruel ...
... force to the very doors , if not into the very heart , of our country . To this hour he always speaks of every thought of overturning the French Jacobinism by force , on the part of any power whatsoever , as an attempt unjust and cruel ...
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... force , of its gaining ground everywhere , that the question whom and what you are to support is to be determined . For my part , without doubt or hesitation , I look upon Jacobinism as the most dreadful and the most shameful evil which ...
... force , of its gaining ground everywhere , that the question whom and what you are to support is to be determined . For my part , without doubt or hesitation , I look upon Jacobinism as the most dreadful and the most shameful evil which ...
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Page 208 - I humble myself before God, I do not know that it is forbidden to repel the attacks of unjust and inconsiderate men. The patience of Job is proverbial. After some of the convulsive struggles of our irritable nature, he submitted himself, and repented in dust and ashes. But even so, I do not find him blamed for reprehending, and with a considerable degree of verbal asperity, those illnatured neighbours of his who visited his dunghill to read moral, political, and economical lectures on his misery.
Page 242 - If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free : if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Page 290 - and with some care examined, the original documents concerning certain important transactions of those times. They perfectly satisfied me of the extreme injustice of that war, and of the falsehood of the colours which Walpole, to his ruin, and guided by a mistaken policy, suffered to be daubed over that measure.
Page 133 - To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people. It is in the power of government to prevent much evil ; it can do very little positive good in this, or perhaps in anything else.
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 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 286 - All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
Page 242 - ... a great state is too much envied, too much dreaded, to find safety in humiliation. To be secure, it must be respected. Power, and eminence, and consideration, are things not to be begged. They must be commanded : and they, who supplicate for mercy from others, can never hope for justice through themselves.