The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1865 - Great Britain |
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... Debts the references were found to be con- fused , and , in many places , erroneous . This proba- bly had arisen from the circumstance that a larger and differently constructed appendix seems to have been originally designed by Mr ...
... Debts the references were found to be con- fused , and , in many places , erroneous . This proba- bly had arisen from the circumstance that a larger and differently constructed appendix seems to have been originally designed by Mr ...
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... debt , and the loss of her ultramarine dominions lessened her expenses . Her colo- nies had , indeed , put themselves into the hands of the English ; but the property of her subjects had been pre- served by capitulations , and a way ...
... debt , and the loss of her ultramarine dominions lessened her expenses . Her colo- nies had , indeed , put themselves into the hands of the English ; but the property of her subjects had been pre- served by capitulations , and a way ...
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... debt . If her troops are cut to pieces , they will by her policy ( and a wonderful policy it is ) be improved , and will be supplied with much better men . If the war is carried on in the colonies , he tells them † that the loss of her ...
... debt . If her troops are cut to pieces , they will by her policy ( and a wonderful policy it is ) be improved , and will be supplied with much better men . If the war is carried on in the colonies , he tells them † that the loss of her ...
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... debts contracted in the few years we held them . The property , therefore , of their whole prod- uce was ours ; not only during the war , but even for more than a year after the peace . The author , I hope , will not again venture upon ...
... debts contracted in the few years we held them . The property , therefore , of their whole prod- uce was ours ; not only during the war , but even for more than a year after the peace . The author , I hope , will not again venture upon ...
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... debt will go hand in hand ; and lastly , that the more money you want , the harder it will be to get it ; and that the scarcity of the commodity will enhance the price . Who ever doubted the truth , or the insignificance , of these ...
... debt will go hand in hand ; and lastly , that the more money you want , the harder it will be to get it ; and that the scarcity of the commodity will enhance the price . Who ever doubted the truth , or the insignificance , of these ...
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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 131 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
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 116 - I am afraid it is a practice much too common in inquiries of this nature, to attribute the cause of feelings which merely arise from the mechanical structure of our bodies, or from the natural frame and constitution of our minds...
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...
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 153 - 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 257 - O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Page 211 - When he had a mind to penetrate into the inclinations of those he had to deal with, he composed his face, his gesture, and his whole body, as nearly as he could into the exact similitude of the person he intended to examine; and then carefully observed what turn of mind he seemed to acquire by this change. So that, says my author, he was able to enter into the dispositions and thoughts of people as effectually as if he had been changed into the very men.
Page 533 - To model our principles to our duties and our situation. To be fully persuaded, that all virtue which is impracticable is spurious ; and rather to run the risk of falling into faults in a course which leads us to act with effect and energy, than to loiter out our days without blame, and without use. Public life is a situation of power and energy ; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy.