The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1865 - Great Britain |
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... reason to think that he kept any other . Neither do I believe in fact ( unless he meditated this villany long ago ) that he did or does now possess any clean copy . I never commu- nicated that paper to any one out of the very viii ...
... reason to think that he kept any other . Neither do I believe in fact ( unless he meditated this villany long ago ) that he did or does now possess any clean copy . I never commu- nicated that paper to any one out of the very viii ...
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... reason to conceal the design of it any longer . The design was to show that , without the exertion of any considerable forces , the same engines which were employed for the destruction of religion , might be employed with equal success ...
... reason to conceal the design of it any longer . The design was to show that , without the exertion of any considerable forces , the same engines which were employed for the destruction of religion , might be employed with equal success ...
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... reason ; they are thrown into a sort of pleasing surprise ; they run along with the speaker , charmed and captivated to find such a plentiful harvest of reasoning , where all seemed barren and unpromising . This is the fairy land of ...
... reason ; they are thrown into a sort of pleasing surprise ; they run along with the speaker , charmed and captivated to find such a plentiful harvest of reasoning , where all seemed barren and unpromising . This is the fairy land of ...
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... reason and fitness , and to use the same method of attack by which some men have assaulted revealed religion , we might with as good color , and with the same success , make the wisdom and power of God in his creation appear to many no ...
... reason and fitness , and to use the same method of attack by which some men have assaulted revealed religion , we might with as good color , and with the same success , make the wisdom and power of God in his creation appear to many no ...
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... reasons which induced me to go so far into that inquiry ; and they are the reasons which direct me in all my inquiries . I had indeed often reflected on that subject before I could prevail on myself to communicate my reflections to ...
... reasons which induced me to go so far into that inquiry ; and they are the reasons which direct me in all my inquiries . I had indeed often reflected on that subject before I could prevail on myself to communicate my reflections to ...
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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.