The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volumen2G. Dearborn, 1835 |
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... regard o them can never vary , without subjecting him to the just indignation of mankind , who are bound , and are generally disposed , to look up with reverence to the best patterns of their species , and such as give a dignity to the ...
... regard o them can never vary , without subjecting him to the just indignation of mankind , who are bound , and are generally disposed , to look up with reverence to the best patterns of their species , and such as give a dignity to the ...
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... regard to the just rights of all the rest , he has credit in every candid mind . He ought not to apprehend , that his raising fences about popular privileges this day , will infer that he ought , on the next , to concur with those who ...
... regard to the just rights of all the rest , he has credit in every candid mind . He ought not to apprehend , that his raising fences about popular privileges this day , will infer that he ought , on the next , to concur with those who ...
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... regard to individuals ; thus I think with regard to an- cient and respected governments and orders of men . A spirit of reformation is never more consistent with itself , than when it refuses to be rendered the means of destruc- tion ...
... regard to individuals ; thus I think with regard to an- cient and respected governments and orders of men . A spirit of reformation is never more consistent with itself , than when it refuses to be rendered the means of destruc- tion ...
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... regard to the safety of her majes- ty's person and government , and the ancient and legal constitution of this kingdom , to call that resistance the necessary means ; thereby plainly founding that power , right , and resist ance , which ...
... regard to the safety of her majes- ty's person and government , and the ancient and legal constitution of this kingdom , to call that resistance the necessary means ; thereby plainly founding that power , right , and resist ance , which ...
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... regard to persons or occasions , and an almost total want of political decorum , were the errours by which he was most hurt in the public opinion ; and those through which his enemies obtained the greatest advantage over him . But ...
... regard to persons or occasions , and an almost total want of political decorum , were the errours by which he was most hurt in the public opinion ; and those through which his enemies obtained the greatest advantage over him . But ...
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Página 84 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Página 205 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Página 205 - I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me; they who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors.
Página 227 - Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two others, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Página 467 - Because a nation is not an idea only of local extent, and individual momentary aggregation; but it is an idea of continuity, which extends in time as well as in numbers and in space.
Página 205 - I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my Lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard season I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world.
Página 448 - And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
Página 41 - ... view of the wide-spread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society \ To have leisure to read, to reflect, to converse ; To be enabled to draw the court and attention of the wise and learned wherever they are to be found ;, — To be habituated in armies to command and to obey ; To be taught to •despise danger in the pursuit of...
Página 8 - When that nameless thing which has been lately set up in France was described as " the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any time or country...
Página 41 - The state of civil society which necessarily generates this aristocracy, is a state of nature ; and much more truly so than a savage and incoherent mode of life. For man is by nature reasonable, and he is never perfectly in his natural state but when he is placed where reason may be best cultivated, and most predominates. Art is man's nature. We are as much at least in a state of nature in formed manhood, as in immature and helpless infancy.