The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1John West and O.C. Greenleaf, 1806 - Great Britain |
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... constitutional disorders ; and whether it may not have introduced new ones , curable perhaps by no skill .. • In looking over any state to form a judgment on it ; it presents itself in two lights , the external and the internal . The ...
... constitutional disorders ; and whether it may not have introduced new ones , curable perhaps by no skill .. • In looking over any state to form a judgment on it ; it presents itself in two lights , the external and the internal . The ...
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... constitution . For as subordination , or in other words , the reciprocation of tyranny , and slavery , is requisite to support these societies , the interest , the ambition , the malice , or the revenge , nay even the whim and caprice ...
... constitution . For as subordination , or in other words , the reciprocation of tyranny , and slavery , is requisite to support these societies , the interest , the ambition , the malice , or the revenge , nay even the whim and caprice ...
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... constitution of a democracy . An art- ful man became popular , the people had power in their hands , and they devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favourite ; and the only use he made of this power , was to plunge ...
... constitution of a democracy . An art- ful man became popular , the people had power in their hands , and they devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favourite ; and the only use he made of this power , was to plunge ...
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... constitution . Yet allowing all this , what defence does this make for artifi- cial society.in general , that these inconsiderable spots of the globe have for some short space of time stood as exceptions to a charge so general ? But ...
... constitution . Yet allowing all this , what defence does this make for artifi- cial society.in general , that these inconsiderable spots of the globe have for some short space of time stood as exceptions to a charge so general ? But ...
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... constitution . These are undoubtedly as ill effects as can happen in a society ; for in such a case , the closeness acquir- ed by community , instead of serving for mutual defence , serves only to increase the danger . Such a system is ...
... constitution . These are undoubtedly as ill effects as can happen in a society ; for in such a case , the closeness acquir- ed by community , instead of serving for mutual defence , serves only to increase the danger . Such a system is ...
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Page 109 - 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, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 206 - 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 feign'd, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
Page 108 - 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 316 - It is reconciled in policy ; and politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature ; of which the reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part.
Page 103 - Of the Passion Caused by the Sublime The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that object which employs it.
Page 482 - Be content to bind America by laws of trade; you have always done it. Let this be your reason for binding their trade. Do not burden them by taxes ; you were not used to do so from the beginning. Let this be your reason for not taxing. These are the arguments of states and kingdoms. Leave the rest to the schools; for there only they may be discussed with safety.
Page 105 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 67 - ... a sort of creative power of its own ; either in representing at pleasure the images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses, or in combining those images in a new manner, and according to a different order.
Page 105 - When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes. Every one will be sensible of this who considers how greatly night adds to our dread in all cases of danger, and how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect minds which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings.
Page 420 - 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.