The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Band 1G. Dearborn, 1835 |
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... thing in that immense ocean of duration in which time and slavery are so nearly com- mensurate . Therefore call ... thing ! the thing itself is the abuse ! Ob- serve , my Lord , I pray you , that grand errour upon which all artificial ...
... thing in that immense ocean of duration in which time and slavery are so nearly com- mensurate . Therefore call ... thing ! the thing itself is the abuse ! Ob- serve , my Lord , I pray you , that grand errour upon which all artificial ...
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... things ; and that those who labour not at all , have the greatest number of enjoyments . A constitution of things this , strange and ridiculous beyond expression . We scarce believe a thing when we are told it , which we actually see ...
... things ; and that those who labour not at all , have the greatest number of enjoyments . A constitution of things this , strange and ridiculous beyond expression . We scarce believe a thing when we are told it , which we actually see ...
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... thing which has appeared in public against my opinions ; I have taken advantage of the candid liberty of my friends ; and if by these means I have been better enabled to discover the imperfections of the work , the indulgence it has ...
... thing which has appeared in public against my opinions ; I have taken advantage of the candid liberty of my friends ; and if by these means I have been better enabled to discover the imperfections of the work , the indulgence it has ...
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... things , that it is still like the palate of other men in many things , and only vitiated in some particular points . For in judging of any new thing , even of a taste similar to that which he has been formed by habit to like , he finds ...
... things , that it is still like the palate of other men in many things , and only vitiated in some particular points . For in judging of any new thing , even of a taste similar to that which he has been formed by habit to like , he finds ...
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... thing , because every thing has , in that stage of life , the charm of novelty to recommend it . But as those things which engage us merely by their novelty , cannot attach us for any length of time , curiosity is the most superficial ...
... thing , because every thing has , in that stage of life , the charm of novelty to recommend it . But as those things which engage us merely by their novelty , cannot attach us for any length of time , curiosity is the most superficial ...
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Seite xii - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
Seite 479 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Seite 246 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Seite 246 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Seite 488 - As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Seite 226 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Seite xxix - Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Seite 478 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Seite 228 - Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government. . Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution ; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system.
Seite 219 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs ; and, above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own.