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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... constitution of a democracy . An artful man became popular , the people had power in their hands , and they devolved a confiderable share of their power upon their favourite ; and the only use he made of this power , was to plunge those ...
... constitution of a democracy . An artful man became popular , the people had power in their hands , and they devolved a confiderable share of their power upon their favourite ; and the only use he made of this power , was to plunge those ...
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... constitution . These are undoubtedly as ill effects , as can happen in a society ; for in fuch a cafe , the closeness acquired by community , instead of serving for mutual defence , ferves only to increase the danger . Such a fyftem is ...
... constitution . These are undoubtedly as ill effects , as can happen in a society ; for in fuch a cafe , the closeness acquired by community , instead of serving for mutual defence , ferves only to increase the danger . Such a fyftem is ...
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... constitution . We scarce ever had a parliament which knew , when it attempted to fet limits to the royal authority , how to fet limits to its own . Evils we have had continually calling for refor- mation , and reformations more grievous ...
... constitution . We scarce ever had a parliament which knew , when it attempted to fet limits to the royal authority , how to fet limits to its own . Evils we have had continually calling for refor- mation , and reformations more grievous ...
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... constitutional distempers . All this however is not without purpose . The author is in hopes , that , when we are fallen into a fanatical terror for the na- tional falvation , we fhall then be ready to throw ourselves , in a fort of ...
... constitutional distempers . All this however is not without purpose . The author is in hopes , that , when we are fallen into a fanatical terror for the na- tional falvation , we fhall then be ready to throw ourselves , in a fort of ...
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... constitution , and more agreeable to the pattern of our beft laws , by leffening the number , to add to the weight and independency of our voters . And truly , confidering the immense and dangerous charge of elections ; the prostitute ...
... constitution , and more agreeable to the pattern of our beft laws , by leffening the number , to add to the weight and independency of our voters . And truly , confidering the immense and dangerous charge of elections ; the prostitute ...
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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.