The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Illustrated in a Series of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches; with a Summary of His Life |
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... rhetorical opulence . The evident cause of the neg- lect is this - the portions of the writings and speeches of Edmund Burke , which must delight every reader , b are often combined with a quantity of matter of temporary.
... rhetorical opulence . The evident cause of the neg- lect is this - the portions of the writings and speeches of Edmund Burke , which must delight every reader , b are often combined with a quantity of matter of temporary.
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... matter of temporary interest only - with a mass , in fact , of political , financial , and statistical detail which the public or parliamentary business of the moment required . Unless the reader has some particular object in view , his ...
... matter of temporary interest only - with a mass , in fact , of political , financial , and statistical detail which the public or parliamentary business of the moment required . Unless the reader has some particular object in view , his ...
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... con- siderably increased , should the book prove in any way the means of extending the knowledge and influence of the illustrious mind whose matter it contains . CONTENTS . A SUMMARY OF THE LIFE OF EDMUND BURKE vini PREFACE .
... con- siderably increased , should the book prove in any way the means of extending the knowledge and influence of the illustrious mind whose matter it contains . CONTENTS . A SUMMARY OF THE LIFE OF EDMUND BURKE vini PREFACE .
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... matter in the true spirit of a political huckster , had the meanness to take the pension back . The whole transaction , the entire particulars of which have only recently transpired , redounds to Mr. Burke's high and unbending honour ...
... matter in the true spirit of a political huckster , had the meanness to take the pension back . The whole transaction , the entire particulars of which have only recently transpired , redounds to Mr. Burke's high and unbending honour ...
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... matters , grave or gay , important or trivial ; he abounded in humour and pleasantry ; he took an interest in every one , and every thing ; and there was scarce a subject of which he did not evince a perfect knowledge . He felt much ...
... matters , grave or gay , important or trivial ; he abounded in humour and pleasantry ; he took an interest in every one , and every thing ; and there was scarce a subject of which he did not evince a perfect knowledge . He felt much ...
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Page 149 - I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy...
Page 17 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page 48 - But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment; which he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 355 - 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.
Page 47 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Page 411 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Page 410 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 11 - A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Page 351 - When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Page 80 - Sir, I think you must perceive that I am resolved this day to have nothing at all to do with the question of the right of taxation. Some gentlemen startle, but it is true. I put it totally out of the question. It is less than nothing in my consideration.