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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... hands of millions , who know no common principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis : for we have no particulars of ...
... hands of millions , who know no common principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis : for we have no particulars of ...
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... hand to this scene of misery and destruction . His kingdom was rent and divided ; which served to employ the more distinct parts to tear each other to pieces , and bury the whole in blood and slaughter . The kings of Syria and of Egypt ...
... hand to this scene of misery and destruction . His kingdom was rent and divided ; which served to employ the more distinct parts to tear each other to pieces , and bury the whole in blood and slaughter . The kings of Syria and of Egypt ...
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... hand , and to the banks of the Loire , or farther , on the other ; destroying all the proud and curious monuments of human art , that not even the memory might seem to survive of the former inhabitants . What has been done since , and ...
... hand , and to the banks of the Loire , or farther , on the other ; destroying all the proud and curious monuments of human art , that not even the memory might seem to survive of the former inhabitants . What has been done since , and ...
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... hands ; but only a few , a very few deaths . Society and politics , which have given us these destructive views , have given us also the means of satisfying them . From the earliest dawn- ings of policy to this day , the inventions of ...
... hands ; but only a few , a very few deaths . Society and politics , which have given us these destructive views , have given us also the means of satisfying them . From the earliest dawn- ings of policy to this day , the inventions of ...
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... 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 those who gave it into slavery . Accident restored their liberty , and the same good fortune ...
... 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 those who gave it into slavery . Accident restored their liberty , and the same good fortune ...
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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.