A Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. at the Guildhall, in Bristol: Previous to the Late Election in that City Upon Certain Points Relative to His Parliamentary Conduct |
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... mean that little , felfish , pitiful , baftard thing , which fometimes goes by the name of a family in which it is not legitimate , and to which it is a difgrace ; -I mean even that public and enlarged prudence , which , apprehenfive of ...
... mean that little , felfish , pitiful , baftard thing , which fometimes goes by the name of a family in which it is not legitimate , and to which it is a difgrace ; -I mean even that public and enlarged prudence , which , apprehenfive of ...
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... means like the severity of its afpect . Reformation is one of those pieces which must be put at some distance in order to please . Its greatest favourers love it better in the abstract than in the substance . When any old prejudice of ...
... means like the severity of its afpect . Reformation is one of those pieces which must be put at some distance in order to please . Its greatest favourers love it better in the abstract than in the substance . When any old prejudice of ...
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... mean to ag- gravate the difficulties of them , by the ftrength of any colouring whatfoever . On the contrary , I obferve , and obferve with pleasure , that our af- fairs rather wear a more promifing aspect than they did on the opening ...
... mean to ag- gravate the difficulties of them , by the ftrength of any colouring whatfoever . On the contrary , I obferve , and obferve with pleasure , that our af- fairs rather wear a more promifing aspect than they did on the opening ...
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... people . This is all , Sir , that I fhall fay upon our cir- cumftances and our refources : I mean to fay a Tittle more on the operations of the enemy , be- little [ 6 ] would not be ruinous and completely difgraceful. ...
... people . This is all , Sir , that I fhall fay upon our cir- cumftances and our refources : I mean to fay a Tittle more on the operations of the enemy , be- little [ 6 ] would not be ruinous and completely difgraceful. ...
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... means of this fingle feffion . But if it were poffible , that the defires of our conftituents , defires which are at once fo natu- ral , and fo very much tempered and fubdued , fhould have no weight with an house of com . mons , which ...
... means of this fingle feffion . But if it were poffible , that the defires of our conftituents , defires which are at once fo natu- ral , and fo very much tempered and fubdued , fhould have no weight with an house of com . mons , which ...
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Page 22 - Cross a brook, and you lose the king of England ; but you have some comfort in coming again under his majesty, though " shorn of his beams," and no more than prince of Wales. Go to the north, and you find him dwindled to a duke of Lancaster ; turn to the west of that north, and he pops upon you in the humble character of earl of Chester. Travel a few miles on, the earl of Chester disappears ; and the king surprises you again as count palatine of Lancaster. If you travel beyond Mount...
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Page 13 - I do most seriously put it to administration, to consider the wisdom of a timely reform. Early reformations are amicable arrangements with a friend in power : late reformations are terms imposed upon a conquered enemy : early reformations are made in cool blood ; late reformations are made under a state of inflammation.
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Page 54 - I never would suffer any man or description of men to suffer from errors that naturally have grown out of the abusive constitution of those offices which I propose to regulate. If I cannot reform with equity, I will not reform at all.
Page 61 - What the law respects shall be sacred to me. If the barriers of law should be broken down, upon ideas of convenience, even of public convenience, we shall have no longer any thing certain among us.
Page 15 - I cannot indeed take upon me to say I have the honour to follow the sense of the people. The truth is, I met it on the way, while I was pursuing their interest according to my own ideas.