The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1J. C. Nimmo, 1887 - Great Britain |
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... ment of a great philosopher , that an irregular state of nature is preferable to such a government ; we have the consent of all sensible and generous men , who carry it yet further , and avow that death itself is preferable ; and yet ...
... ment of a great philosopher , that an irregular state of nature is preferable to such a government ; we have the consent of all sensible and generous men , who carry it yet further , and avow that death itself is preferable ; and yet ...
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... ment . The earliest and most celebrated republic of this model was that of Athens . It was constructed by no less an artist than the celebrated poet and philosopher , Solon . But no sooner was this political vessel launched from the ...
... ment . The earliest and most celebrated republic of this model was that of Athens . It was constructed by no less an artist than the celebrated poet and philosopher , Solon . But no sooner was this political vessel launched from the ...
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... ment , though united , preserve the spirit which each form has separately . Kings are ambitious ; the no- bility haughty ; and the populace tumultuous and ungovernable . Each party , however in appearance peaceable , carries on a design ...
... ment , though united , preserve the spirit which each form has separately . Kings are ambitious ; the no- bility haughty ; and the populace tumultuous and ungovernable . Each party , however in appearance peaceable , carries on a design ...
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... ment of their duration , have felt more confusion , and committed more flagrant acts of tyranny , than the most perfect despotic governments which we have ever known . Turn your eye next to the labyrinth of the law , and the iniquity ...
... ment of their duration , have felt more confusion , and committed more flagrant acts of tyranny , than the most perfect despotic governments which we have ever known . Turn your eye next to the labyrinth of the law , and the iniquity ...
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... ment of them to the folly of human institutions ? Will you follow truth but to a certain point ? We are indebted for all our miseries to our distrust of that guide which Providence thought sufficient for our condition , our own natural ...
... ment of them to the folly of human institutions ? Will you follow truth but to a certain point ? We are indebted for all our miseries to our distrust of that guide which Providence thought sufficient for our condition , our own natural ...
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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.