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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... Light 106 xv . Light in Building 108 XVI . Colour considered as productive of the Sublime ib . XVII . Sound and Loudness • 109 XVIII . Suddenness ib . XIX . Intermitting 110 xx . The Cries of Animals ib . XXI . Smell and Taste . Bitters ...
... Light 106 xv . Light in Building 108 XVI . Colour considered as productive of the Sublime ib . XVII . Sound and Loudness • 109 XVIII . Suddenness ib . XIX . Intermitting 110 xx . The Cries of Animals ib . XXI . Smell and Taste . Bitters ...
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... light , and feel such refreshing airs of liberty , as daily raise our ardour for more . The miseries derived to mankind from superstition under the name of re- ligion , and of ecclesiastical tyranny under the name of church government ...
... light , and feel such refreshing airs of liberty , as daily raise our ardour for more . The miseries derived to mankind from superstition under the name of re- ligion , and of ecclesiastical tyranny under the name of church government ...
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... lights ; the external , and the internal . The first , that relation which it bears in point of friendship or en- mity to other states . The second , that relation which its com- ponent parts , the governing and the governed , bear to ...
... lights ; the external , and the internal . The first , that relation which it bears in point of friendship or en- mity to other states . The second , that relation which its com- ponent parts , the governing and the governed , bear to ...
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... light upon that part which coincides with Roman history , and of that part only on the point of time when they received the great and final stroke which made them no more a nation ; a stroke which is allowed to have cut off little less ...
... light upon that part which coincides with Roman history , and of that part only on the point of time when they received the great and final stroke which made them no more a nation ; a stroke which is allowed to have cut off little less ...
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... understanding . And to prevent the least hope of amendment , a king is ever sur rounded by a crowd of infamous flatterers , who find their account in keeping him from the least light of reason 22 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... understanding . And to prevent the least hope of amendment , a king is ever sur rounded by a crowd of infamous flatterers , who find their account in keeping him from the least light of reason 22 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
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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.