The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volumen6Little, Brown,, 1866 |
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... English- men hang and drown themselves . In truth , this work has a tendency to alarm us with symptoms of public suicide . However , there is one comfort to be taken even from the gloomy time of year . It is a rotting season . If what ...
... English- men hang and drown themselves . In truth , this work has a tendency to alarm us with symptoms of public suicide . However , there is one comfort to be taken even from the gloomy time of year . It is a rotting season . If what ...
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... English , impossible to make it very civil English : it belongs , indeed , to the language of the halles : but , without be- ing instructed in that dialect , it was the opinion of the polite Lord Chesterfield that no man could be a ...
... English , impossible to make it very civil English : it belongs , indeed , to the language of the halles : but , without be- ing instructed in that dialect , it was the opinion of the polite Lord Chesterfield that no man could be a ...
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... English writers and English caballers , that France herself was instituted in this revolutionary fury . The communion of these two factions upon any pretended basis of similarity is a matter of very serious consideration . They are ...
... English writers and English caballers , that France herself was instituted in this revolutionary fury . The communion of these two factions upon any pretended basis of similarity is a matter of very serious consideration . They are ...
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... English tongue were not employed to utter what our ancestors never dreamed could enter into an English heart ! ― But let us consider this matter of adequate com- pensation . Who is to furnish it ? From what funds is it to be drawn ? Is ...
... English tongue were not employed to utter what our ancestors never dreamed could enter into an English heart ! ― But let us consider this matter of adequate com- pensation . Who is to furnish it ? From what funds is it to be drawn ? Is ...
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... English in France may be permitted , as the Jews are in Po- land and in Turkey , to execute all the little inglo- rious occupations , to be the sellers of new and the buyers of old clothes , to be their brokers and fac- tors , and to be ...
... English in France may be permitted , as the Jews are in Po- land and in Turkey , to execute all the little inglo- rious occupations , to be the sellers of new and the buyers of old clothes , to be their brokers and fac- tors , and to be ...
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act of Parliament affairs amongst appear BEACONSFIELD Bishop of London Burke Catholics cause Church circumstances civil colonies confess consider Constitution crime crown danger declaration Dissenters EDMUND BURKE effect empire enacted England English established Europe evil execution faction favor force France friends give hereby honor House of Commons human interest Ireland Irish Jacobins justice justices of peace king kingdom land least letter liberty Lord Lord Auckland Lord North Majesty Majesty's manner matter means measure ment mind minister mode murder nation nature never object obliged offence opinion Papists Parliament party peace persecution persons political present principles protector of negroes Protestant Protestant ascendency reason regard Regicide religion sans-culotte sentiments ship sort sovereign speculative spirit suffer sure things Thomas Paine thought tion trade West Indies whilst whole wholly wish zeal
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Página 49 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence.
Página 347 - THE Roman Catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland : or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles the Second...
Página 324 - It would be hard to point out any error more truly subversive of all the order and beauty, of all the peace and happiness, of human society, than the position, that any body of men have a right to make what laws they please ; or that laws can derive any authority from their institution merely and independent of the quality of the subject-matter. No arguments of policy, reason of state, or preservation of the constitution, can be pleaded in favour of such a practice.
Página 64 - As fine as daubers' hands can make it, In hopes that strangers may mistake it ; We think it both a shame and sin To quit the good old Angel Inn.
Página 324 - VI. 21 should bo themselves the chief sufferers by it; because it would be made against the principle of a superior law, which it is not in the power of any community, or of the whole race of man, to alter...
Página 381 - ... strength, which, to that hour, Ireland was never so happy as to enjoy. My sanguine hopes are blasted, and I must consign my feelings, on that terrible disappointment, to the same patience in which I have been obliged to bury the vexation I suffered on the defeat of the other great, just, and honorable causes in which I have had some share ; and which have given more of dignity, than of peace and advantage, to a long laborious life.
Página 180 - ... it was not because a positive law authorized what was then done, but because the freedom and safety of the subject, the origin and cause of all laws, required a proceeding paramount and superior to them. At that ever memorable and instructive period, the letter of the law was superseded in favor of the substance of liberty.
Página 348 - ... provided also, that no person whatsoever shall have or enjoy the benefit of this article, that shall neglect or refuse to take the oath of allegiance, made by act of parliament in England, in the first year of the reign of their present majesties, when thereunto required.
Página 223 - Government influence ; that the business of a minister, or of those who acted as such, had been still further to contract the narrowness of men's ideas, to confirm inveterate prejudices, to inflame vulgar passions, and to abet all sorts of popular absurdities...
Página 178 - That the establishment of such a power in America will utterly ruin our finances (though its certain effect) is the smallest part of our concern. It will become an apt, powerful, and certain engine for the destruction of our freedom here.