Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke, Band 11811 |
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... destroy them , or they will destroy the constitution . In our constitution there has always been a difference between a franchise 58.
... destroy them , or they will destroy the constitution . In our constitution there has always been a difference between a franchise 58.
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... destroy any power , growing wild from the rank productive force of the human mind , is almost tantamount , in the ... destroy ( if it were in our com- petence to destroy ) the expansive force of fixed air in nitre , or the power of stean ...
... destroy any power , growing wild from the rank productive force of the human mind , is almost tantamount , in the ... destroy ( if it were in our com- petence to destroy ) the expansive force of fixed air in nitre , or the power of stean ...
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... destroy the body that entertains it . But vehement passion does not always indicate an infirm judgment . It often accompanies , and actuates , and is even auxiliary to a powerful understanding ; and when they both conspire and act ...
... destroy the body that entertains it . But vehement passion does not always indicate an infirm judgment . It often accompanies , and actuates , and is even auxiliary to a powerful understanding ; and when they both conspire and act ...
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... destroyed ; and he was a wise Greek , wise for the general Grecian interests , as well as a brave Lacedemonian enemy , and generous conqueror , who did not wish , by the destruction of Athens , to pluck out the other eye of Greece ...
... destroyed ; and he was a wise Greek , wise for the general Grecian interests , as well as a brave Lacedemonian enemy , and generous conqueror , who did not wish , by the destruction of Athens , to pluck out the other eye of Greece ...
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... destroyed , all the politics of Europe for more than two centuries have been miserably erroneous . **** I allow indeed that the empire of Germany raises her revenue and her troops by quotas and contingents ; but the revenue of the ...
... destroyed , all the politics of Europe for more than two centuries have been miserably erroneous . **** I allow indeed that the empire of Germany raises her revenue and her troops by quotas and contingents ; but the revenue of the ...
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Seite 183 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Seite 146 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Seite 184 - All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.
Seite 146 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission ; without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
Seite 145 - You will observe, that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Seite 132 - A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Seite 26 - But one of the first and most leading principles on which the commonwealth and the laws are consecrated, is lest the temporary possessors and life-renters in it, unmindful of what they have received from their ancestors, or of what is due to their posterity, should act as if they were the entire masters...
Seite 24 - All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust ; and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.
Seite 55 - My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force ; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource : for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left.
Seite 47 - Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire, and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown. In large bodies, the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities.