The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volumen6Little, Brown,, 1866 |
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... kingdom and the other powers of Europe " materially depend on the reestablishment of order in France . " His Majesty does not hesitate to declare that " the reëstablishment of monarchy , in the person of Louis the Seventeenth , and the ...
... kingdom and the other powers of Europe " materially depend on the reestablishment of order in France . " His Majesty does not hesitate to declare that " the reëstablishment of monarchy , in the person of Louis the Seventeenth , and the ...
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... kingdom , which , under the insulting name of an in- dependency , is under her iron yoke , and , as long as a faction averse to the old government is suffered there to domineer , cannot be otherwise . I say noth- ing of the Austrian ...
... kingdom , which , under the insulting name of an in- dependency , is under her iron yoke , and , as long as a faction averse to the old government is suffered there to domineer , cannot be otherwise . I say noth- ing of the Austrian ...
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... kingdom took the least notice of that un- heard - of declaration ; nor will Great Britain , till she is known with certainty to be true to her own dig- nity , find any one disposed to feel for the indignities that are offered to her ...
... kingdom took the least notice of that un- heard - of declaration ; nor will Great Britain , till she is known with certainty to be true to her own dig- nity , find any one disposed to feel for the indignities that are offered to her ...
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... kingdom . The declaration was made subsequent to the noble lord's encomium on the new Regicide Constitution , - after the pamphlet had made something more than advances towards a rec- onciliation with that ungracious race , and had di ...
... kingdom . The declaration was made subsequent to the noble lord's encomium on the new Regicide Constitution , - after the pamphlet had made something more than advances towards a rec- onciliation with that ungracious race , and had di ...
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... kingdom , with Austria , or , indeed , with any other power that I know of . As superiors , they ex- pect others to begin . We have complied , as you The hostile insolence with which they gave such a rebuff to our first overture , in ...
... kingdom , with Austria , or , indeed , with any other power that I know of . As superiors , they ex- pect others to begin . We have complied , as you The hostile insolence with which they gave such a rebuff to our first overture , in ...
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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.