The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1902 |
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... friendship or en- mity to other states . The second , that relation which its com- ponent parts , the governing and the governed , bear to each other . The first part of the external view of all states , their relation as friends ...
... friendship or en- mity to other states . The second , that relation which its com- ponent parts , the governing and the governed , bear to each other . The first part of the external view of all states , their relation as friends ...
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... friends and bravest captains , on the re- turn of reason he began to conceive a horror suitable to the guilt of such a murder . In this juncture , his council came to his assistance . But what did his council ? They found him out a ...
... friends and bravest captains , on the re- turn of reason he began to conceive a horror suitable to the guilt of such a murder . In this juncture , his council came to his assistance . But what did his council ? They found him out a ...
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... friendship , are things almost unknown in high stations . Vera amicitia rarissime inveniuntur in iis qui in honoribus reque publica versantur , says Cicero . And , indeed , courts are the schools where cruelty , pride , dissimulation ...
... friendship , are things almost unknown in high stations . Vera amicitia rarissime inveniuntur in iis qui in honoribus reque publica versantur , says Cicero . And , indeed , courts are the schools where cruelty , pride , dissimulation ...
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... friends at large . Pope has expressed them in good verse , where he talks with so much force of reason and elegance of language , in praise of the state of nature : Then was not pride , nor arts that pride to aid , Man walked with beast ...
... friends at large . Pope has expressed them in good verse , where he talks with so much force of reason and elegance of language , in praise of the state of nature : Then was not pride , nor arts that pride to aid , Man walked with beast ...
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... friendship ; vices which could draw little support from a state of nature , but which blossom and flourish in the rank- ness of political society . Revolve our whole discourse ; add to it all those reflections which your own good ...
... friendship ; vices which could draw little support from a state of nature , but which blossom and flourish in the rank- ness of political society . Revolve our whole discourse ; add to it all those reflections which your own good ...
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Page 512 - Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man. 3*. 6d. Chalmers on the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man. 5*.
Page 460 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the Poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil.
Page 506 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 445 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 91 - 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...
Page 466 - in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states, that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law, — and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Page 506 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.