The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes. Vol. I.[-III.].J. Dodsley, Pall Mall., 1792 - Great Britain |
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... cause ; for it is an honeft zeal , and in a good cause . I have dé- fended natural religion against a confederacy of atheists and divines . I now plead for natural fociety against politi- cians , and for natural reason against all three ...
... cause ; for it is an honeft zeal , and in a good cause . I have dé- fended natural religion against a confederacy of atheists and divines . I now plead for natural fociety against politi- cians , and for natural reason against all three ...
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... cause , and their own affociates . I could fhew how vehemently they have con- tended for names , and how filently they have passed over things of the last importance . And I could demonstrate , that they have had the opportunity of ...
... cause , and their own affociates . I could fhew how vehemently they have con- tended for names , and how filently they have passed over things of the last importance . And I could demonstrate , that they have had the opportunity of ...
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... cause . Therefore judges were fet up , at first with discretionary powers . But it was foon found a miserable flavery to have our lives and properties precarious , and hanging upon the arbitrary determination of any one man , or set of ...
... cause . Therefore judges were fet up , at first with discretionary powers . But it was foon found a miserable flavery to have our lives and properties precarious , and hanging upon the arbitrary determination of any one man , or set of ...
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... cause . My cause , which two farmers from the plough could have decided in half an hour , takes the court twenty years . I am however at the end of my labour , and have in reward for all my toil and vexation , a judgment in my favour ...
... cause . My cause , which two farmers from the plough could have decided in half an hour , takes the court twenty years . I am however at the end of my labour , and have in reward for all my toil and vexation , a judgment in my favour ...
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... causes of the af- fection ; but in the degree there is a difference , which arifes from two caufes principally ... cause of this quality . So far they agree . But suppose ano- ther , and after that another table , the latter ftill ...
... causes of the af- fection ; but in the degree there is a difference , which arifes from two caufes principally ... cause of this quality . So far they agree . But suppose ano- ther , and after that another table , the latter ftill ...
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Page 574 - Sir, let the gentlemen on the other side call forth all their ability, let the best of them get up and tell me, what one character of liberty the Americans have, and what one brand of slavery they are free from, if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce, and at the same time are made packhorses of every tax you choose to impose, without the least share in granting them. When they bear the...
Page 122 - IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination. If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landscape, I present a very clear idea of those objects; but...
Page 121 - To make any thing very terrible, obscurity* seems in general to be necessary. When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes.
Page 112 - Now whatever either on good or upon bad grounds tends to raise a man in his own opinion, produces a sort of swelling and triumph that is extremely grateful to the human mind; and this swelling is never more perceived, nor operates with more force, than when without danger we are conversant with terrible objects, the mind always claiming to itself some part of the dignity and importance of the things which it contemplates.
Page 565 - Deprived of his guiding influence, they were whirled about, the sport of every gust, and easily driven into any port ; and as those who joined with them in manning the vessel were the most directly opposite to his opinions, measures, and character, and far the most artful and most powerful...
Page 570 - ... and what repealing; what bullying, and what submitting; what doing, and undoing ; what straining, and what relaxing what assemblies dissolved for not obeying, and called again without obedience ; what troops sent out to quell resistance, and on meeting that resistance, recalled ; what shiftings, and changes, and jumblings of all kinds of men at home, which left no possibility of order, consistency, vigour, or even so much as a decent unity of colour in any one public measure.
Page 567 - But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame ; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. He worshipped that goddess wheresoever she appeared ; but he paid his particular devotions to her in her favourite habitation, in her chosen temple, the House of Commons.
Page 71 - 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 125 - 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.