Memoirs of the right honourable Edmund Burke; or, An impartial review of his private life, his public conduct, his speeches in parliament, and the different productions of his penLee and Hurst, 1798 - 378 pages |
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... British cabinet during the most eventful period of our history . It would have been easy to give the work a higher finishing in a little more time ; but the praise of masterly execution appeared of little consequence , when compared ...
... British cabinet during the most eventful period of our history . It would have been easy to give the work a higher finishing in a little more time ; but the praise of masterly execution appeared of little consequence , when compared ...
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... British conftitution to every part of the British dominions . " The option , both of the measure , and of the principle of repeal , " continued Mr. BURKE , " was made before the feffion ; and I wonder how any one can read the king's ...
... British conftitution to every part of the British dominions . " The option , both of the measure , and of the principle of repeal , " continued Mr. BURKE , " was made before the feffion ; and I wonder how any one can read the king's ...
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... British empire were compofed , by the repeal of the American ftamp - act ; But the constitutional fuperiority of Great Britain was pre- ferved , by the act for fecuring the dependence of the colonies . Private houses were relieved from ...
... British empire were compofed , by the repeal of the American ftamp - act ; But the constitutional fuperiority of Great Britain was pre- ferved , by the act for fecuring the dependence of the colonies . Private houses were relieved from ...
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... British flag , and fuch a flagrant act of open hoftility . Par- liament readily voted fupplies , advanced the land - tax , and ap- plauded every measure that seemed calculated to obtain proper atonement . atonement for the injury . But ...
... British flag , and fuch a flagrant act of open hoftility . Par- liament readily voted fupplies , advanced the land - tax , and ap- plauded every measure that seemed calculated to obtain proper atonement . atonement for the injury . But ...
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... British miniftry were content with a fort of equivocal declaration on the part of the king of Spain , faintly difavowing the enterprize , though the conductor of it was loaded with honours ; engaging to restore Port Egmont ; but at the ...
... British miniftry were content with a fort of equivocal declaration on the part of the king of Spain , faintly difavowing the enterprize , though the conductor of it was loaded with honours ; engaging to restore Port Egmont ; but at the ...
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Page 38 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 220 - But, my lords, who is the man, that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared to authorize and associate to our arms the tomahawk and scalping-knife of the savage; to call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman inhabitant of the woods...
Page 141 - ... some way related to the business that was to be done within it. If he was ambitious, I will say this for him, his ambition was of a noble and generous strain. It was to raise himself not by...
Page 38 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Page 142 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 98 - ... them in a superior manner did not always preserve, when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape.
Page 98 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the great masters of the renowned ages.
Page 263 - But he has put to hazard his ease, his security, his interest, his power, even his darling popularity, for the benefit of a people whom he has never seen.
Page 38 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot, too cool; for a drudge, disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Page 104 - The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State, it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake.