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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... whilst they oppose every system , are wisely careful never to set up any of their own . If some inaccu- racies in calculation , in reasoning , or in method , be found , perhaps these will not be looked upon as faults by the ad- mirers ...
... whilst they oppose every system , are wisely careful never to set up any of their own . If some inaccu- racies in calculation , in reasoning , or in method , be found , perhaps these will not be looked upon as faults by the ad- mirers ...
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... whilst the real pro- ductive cause of all this superstitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are otherwise enlightened . Civil government borrows a strength ...
... whilst the real pro- ductive cause of all this superstitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are otherwise enlightened . Civil government borrows a strength ...
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... whilst the mode of its government was controverted between the republican and tyrannical parties , and the possession struggled for by the natives , the Greeks , the Carthaginians , and the Romans , your Lordship will easily recollect ...
... whilst the mode of its government was controverted between the republican and tyrannical parties , and the possession struggled for by the natives , the Greeks , the Carthaginians , and the Romans , your Lordship will easily recollect ...
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... whilst it stood ; nor from the suckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if , in this inconsiderable part of the globe , such a carnage has been made in two or three short reigns , and that this great carnage , great as it ...
... whilst it stood ; nor from the suckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if , in this inconsiderable part of the globe , such a carnage has been made in two or three short reigns , and that this great carnage , great as it ...
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... whilst he persuades the prince , that those murmurs raised by his own oppression are the effects of disaffection to the prince's go- vernment . Then is the natural violence of despotism in- flamed and aggravated by hatred and revenge ...
... whilst he persuades the prince , that those murmurs raised by his own oppression are the effects of disaffection to the prince's go- vernment . Then is the natural violence of despotism in- flamed and aggravated by hatred and revenge ...
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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.