Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke, Band 11811 |
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... hope ! Of his talents and acquirements in ge- neral , it is unnecessary to speak . They were long the glory of his country , and as a senator , he is exempted from the common oblivion of men ; as one whose talents , and whose virtues ...
... hope ! Of his talents and acquirements in ge- neral , it is unnecessary to speak . They were long the glory of his country , and as a senator , he is exempted from the common oblivion of men ; as one whose talents , and whose virtues ...
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... hope in God , they never will be put . **** I know well that there is a cant language current , about the difference between an exclusion from em- ployments even to the most rigorous extent , and an exclusion from the natural benefits ...
... hope in God , they never will be put . **** I know well that there is a cant language current , about the difference between an exclusion from em- ployments even to the most rigorous extent , and an exclusion from the natural benefits ...
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... the credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves . They never give people possession ; but they always keep them in hope . CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT OF ENGLAND . FIRST , I beg leave 22 . CHARTERS POLITICAL CHEATS.
... the credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves . They never give people possession ; but they always keep them in hope . CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT OF ENGLAND . FIRST , I beg leave 22 . CHARTERS POLITICAL CHEATS.
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... hope should be full of immortality ; that they should not look to the paltry pelf of the moment , nor to the tem- porary and transient praise of the vulgar , but to a so- lid , permanent existence , in the permanent part of their nature ...
... hope should be full of immortality ; that they should not look to the paltry pelf of the moment , nor to the tem- porary and transient praise of the vulgar , but to a so- lid , permanent existence , in the permanent part of their nature ...
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... hope and fear , would keep the actions of men in a certain course , or direct them to a certain end . Nothing stable in the modes of holding property , or exercising function , could form a solid ground on which any parent could spe ...
... hope and fear , would keep the actions of men in a certain course , or direct them to a certain end . Nothing stable in the modes of holding property , or exercising function , could form a solid ground on which any parent could spe ...
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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.