The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1J. C. Nimmo, 1887 - Great Britain |
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... human race , when he gives one man the power over many , and arms his naturally impotent and feeble rage with the hands of millions , who know no com- mon principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The ...
... human race , when he gives one man the power over many , and arms his naturally impotent and feeble rage with the hands of millions , who know no com- mon principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The ...
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... human blood scarcely credible . The neighboring little states teemed for new destruction : the Sabines , the Samnites , the Equi , the Volsci , the Hetrurians , were broken by a series of slaughters which had no 20 A VINDICATION OF ...
... human blood scarcely credible . The neighboring little states teemed for new destruction : the Sabines , the Samnites , the Equi , the Volsci , the Hetrurians , were broken by a series of slaughters which had no 20 A VINDICATION OF ...
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... human species caused in both , really astonishes beyond expression , when it is nakedly considered , and those matters which are apt to divert our atten- tion from it , the characters , actions , and designs of the persons concerned ...
... human species caused in both , really astonishes beyond expression , when it is nakedly considered , and those matters which are apt to divert our atten- tion from it , the characters , actions , and designs of the persons concerned ...
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... human art , that not even the memory might seem to survive of the former inhabitants . What has been done since , and what will continue to be done while the same induce- ments to war continue , I shall not dwell upon . I shall only in ...
... human art , that not even the memory might seem to survive of the former inhabitants . What has been done since , and what will continue to be done while the same induce- ments to war continue , I shall not dwell upon . I shall only in ...
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... shocks our humanity , and almost staggers our belief . So that , allowing me in my ex- uberance one way for my deficiencies in the other , you will find me not unreasonable . I think the A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 25.
... shocks our humanity , and almost staggers our belief . So that , allowing me in my ex- uberance one way for my deficiencies in the other , you will find me not unreasonable . I think the A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 25.
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Page 201 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Page 153 - His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 128 - Of the Passion Caused by the Sublime The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is Astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror.
Page 435 - To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind ; indeed the necessary effects of the ignorance and levity of the vulgar.
Page 135 - 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 528 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 133 - Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 79 - I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty or those faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or which form a judgment of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts.
Page 133 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 531 - Men thinking freely will, in particular instances, think differently. But still, as the greater Part of the measures which arise in the course of public business are related to, or dependent on, some great leading general principles in Government, a man must be peculiarly unfortunate in the choice of his political company if he does not agree with them at least nine times in ten.