The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1865 - Great Britain |
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... tax . The personal liberty of the subject was confirmed , by the resolution against general warrants . The lawful secrets of business and friendship were rendered inviolable , by the resolution for condemning the seizure of papers . The ...
... tax . The personal liberty of the subject was confirmed , by the resolution against general warrants . The lawful secrets of business and friendship were rendered inviolable , by the resolution for condemning the seizure of papers . The ...
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... taxes , and the high price of labor and provisions , are here retailed again and again in the same tone with which they have drawled through col- umns of Gazetteers and Advertisers for a century to- gether . Paradoxes which affront ...
... taxes , and the high price of labor and provisions , are here retailed again and again in the same tone with which they have drawled through col- umns of Gazetteers and Advertisers for a century to- gether . Paradoxes which affront ...
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... taxes upon the people of England . While the Brit- ish seamen were consuming on board our men of war and privateers , foreign ships and foreign seamen were employed in the transportation of our merchandise ; and the carrying trade , so ...
... taxes upon the people of England . While the Brit- ish seamen were consuming on board our men of war and privateers , foreign ships and foreign seamen were employed in the transportation of our merchandise ; and the carrying trade , so ...
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... taxes to be imposed ; new taxes must add to the price of our manufactures , and lessen their consumption among for- eigners . The decay of our trade must necessarily occasion a decrease of the public revenue ; and a defi- ciency of our ...
... taxes to be imposed ; new taxes must add to the price of our manufactures , and lessen their consumption among for- eigners . The decay of our trade must necessarily occasion a decrease of the public revenue ; and a defi- ciency of our ...
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... by oppressive taxes upon the people of England . " Never was anything more destitute of foundation . It might be proved , with * Page 6 . the greatest ease , from the nature and quality of ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION . 287.
... by oppressive taxes upon the people of England . " Never was anything more destitute of foundation . It might be proved , with * Page 6 . the greatest ease , from the nature and quality of ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION . 287.
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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.