The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volumen6Little, Brown,, 1866 |
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... never found leisure or inclination to finish it . 5. A Letter on the Affairs of Ireland , written in the year 1797. The name of the person to whom this letter was addressed does not ap- pear on the manuscript ; nor has the letter been ...
... never found leisure or inclination to finish it . 5. A Letter on the Affairs of Ireland , written in the year 1797. The name of the person to whom this letter was addressed does not ap- pear on the manuscript ; nor has the letter been ...
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... never appre- hends he may change his opinions before his pen is out of his hand , but always enables us to lay in at least a year's stock of useful information . At first I took comfort . I said to myself , that , if I should , as I ...
... never appre- hends he may change his opinions before his pen is out of his hand , but always enables us to lay in at least a year's stock of useful information . At first I took comfort . I said to myself , that , if I should , as I ...
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... never seen in such an extent of territory , from the beginning of time , as in that empire which the Jacobins possessed in October , 1795 , and which Boissy d'Anglas , in his report , settled as the law for Europe , and the domin- ion ...
... never seen in such an extent of territory , from the beginning of time , as in that empire which the Jacobins possessed in October , 1795 , and which Boissy d'Anglas , in his report , settled as the law for Europe , and the domin- ion ...
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... never stated as the author's own , nor left , as here it is , unanswered . Indeed , the mode of stating the most decided opinions in the form of questions is so little uncommon , particularly since the excellent queries of the excellent ...
... never stated as the author's own , nor left , as here it is , unanswered . Indeed , the mode of stating the most decided opinions in the form of questions is so little uncommon , particularly since the excellent queries of the excellent ...
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... never believed the masters ; nor do I now find myself disposed to give credit to the disciple . I will not much dispute with our author , ― which party has the best of this Revolution , 34 LETTERS ON A REGICIDE PEACE .
... never believed the masters ; nor do I now find myself disposed to give credit to the disciple . I will not much dispute with our author , ― which party has the best of this Revolution , 34 LETTERS ON A REGICIDE PEACE .
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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.