The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7J. C. Nimmo, 1887 - Great Britain |
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... sort of hardship . They want to receive the emoluments appropriated for teaching one set of doctrines , whilst they are teaching another . A church , in any legal sense , is only a certain system of religious doctrines and practices ...
... sort of hardship . They want to receive the emoluments appropriated for teaching one set of doctrines , whilst they are teaching another . A church , in any legal sense , is only a certain system of religious doctrines and practices ...
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... sort out what is intended for example , what only as narrative , —what to be understood literally , what fig- uratively , where one precept is to be controlled and modified by another , what is used directly , and what only as an ...
... sort out what is intended for example , what only as narrative , —what to be understood literally , what fig- uratively , where one precept is to be controlled and modified by another , what is used directly , and what only as an ...
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... sort of theo- retical or practical conclusion . A statesman differs from a professor in an university : the latter has only the general view of society ; the former , the states- man , has a number of circumstances to combine with those ...
... sort of theo- retical or practical conclusion . A statesman differs from a professor in an university : the latter has only the general view of society ; the former , the states- man , has a number of circumstances to combine with those ...
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... sort of approach to perfection . There is not , there never was , a principle of government under heaven , that does not , in the very pursuit of the good it proposes , naturally and inevitably lead into some . inconvenience which makes ...
... sort of approach to perfection . There is not , there never was , a principle of government under heaven , that does not , in the very pursuit of the good it proposes , naturally and inevitably lead into some . inconvenience which makes ...
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... sort of power and influence would induce us to act against the true interests of the people . All are agreed that Parliaments should not be per- petual ; the only question is , What is the most con- venient time for their duration ? on ...
... sort of power and influence would induce us to act against the true interests of the people . All are agreed that Parliaments should not be per- petual ; the only question is , What is the most con- venient time for their duration ? on ...
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Page 41 - I do not put abstract ideas wholly out of any question, because I well know, that under that name I should dismiss principles ; and that without the guide and light of sound well-understood principles, all reasonings in politics, as in every thing else, would be only a confused jumble of particular facts and details, without the means of drawing out any sort of theoretical or practical conclusion.
Page 30 - And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
Page 95 - Because a nation is not an idea only of local extent and individual momentary aggregation, but it is an idea of continuity which extends in time as well as in numbers and in space.
Page 43 - An alliance between church and state in a Christian commonwealth, is, in my opinion, an idle and a fanciful speculation. An alliance is between two things that are in their nature distinct and independent, such as between two sovereign states. But in a Christian commonwealth, the church and the state are one and the same thing, being different integral parts of the same whole.
Page 36 - Under the systematic attacks of these people, I see some of the props of good government already begin to fail; I see propagated principles which will not leave to religion even a toleration.
Page 466 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseized, or outlawed, or banished, or any ways destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor will we send upon him, unless by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 71 - ... of any contrivance of human wisdom, who believes that it can make any sort of approach to perfection. There is not, there never .was, a principle of government under heaven, that does not, in the very pursuit of the good it proposes, naturally and inevitably lead into some inconvenience, which makes it absolutely necessary to counterwork and weaken the application of that first principle itself; and to...
Page 133 - I am accused, I am told abroad, of being a man of aristocratic principles. If by aristocracy they mean the peers, I have no vulgar admiration, nor any vulgar antipathy towards them ; I hold their order in cold and decent respect. I hold them to be of an absolute necessity in the Constitution ; but I think they are only good when kept within their proper bounds.
Page 25 - ... tolerated, it conquered all the powers of darkness, it conquered all the powers of the world. The moment it began to depart from these principles, it converted the establishment into tyranny ; it subverted its foundations from that very hour. Zealous as I am for the principle of an establishment, so just an abhorrence do I conceive against whatever may shake it. I know nothing but the supposed necessity of persecution, that can make an establishment disgusting. I would have toleration a part...
Page 35 - Christianity will indirectly suffer by this liberty, you have my free consent; go directly and by the straight way, and not by a circuit in which in your road you may destroy your friends : point your arms against these men, who do the mischief you fear promoting ; point your arms against men, who, not contented with endeavoring to turn your eyes from the blaze and effulgence of light, by which life and immortality is so gloriously demonstrated by the gospel, would even extinguish that faint glimmering...