The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 |
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... true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences . These were the reasons which induced me to go so far into that inquiry ; and they are the reasons which direct me in all my inquiries . I had ...
... true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences . These were the reasons which induced me to go so far into that inquiry ; and they are the reasons which direct me in all my inquiries . I had ...
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... true point of quiet . It discovers every day some craving want in a body , which really wants but little . It every day invents some new arti- ficial rule to guide that nature which , if left to itself , were the best and surest guide ...
... true point of quiet . It discovers every day some craving want in a body , which really wants but little . It every day invents some new arti- ficial rule to guide that nature which , if left to itself , were the best and surest guide ...
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... true of several , but still is by far the majority in the same old state of blindness and slavery ; and much is it to be feared that we shall perpetually relapse , whilst the real pro- ductive cause of all this superstitious folly ...
... true of several , but still is by far the majority in the same old state of blindness and slavery ; and much is it to be feared that we shall perpetually relapse , whilst the real pro- ductive cause of all this superstitious folly ...
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... that claims an esteem by itself , and independent of the countenance of the court . What has been said of the chief , is true of the inferior officers of this species of government : each in A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 333.
... that claims an esteem by itself , and independent of the countenance of the court . What has been said of the chief , is true of the inferior officers of this species of government : each in A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 333.
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... that claims an esteem by itself , and independent of the countenance of the court . What has been said of the chief , is true of the There inferior officers of this species of government ; each in A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 23.
... that claims an esteem by itself , and independent of the countenance of the court . What has been said of the chief , is true of the There inferior officers of this species of government ; each in A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 23.
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Page 67 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice...
Page 363 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
Page 331 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful, and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the Congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Page 259 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 338 - ... direct and immediate power of the colonies to resist our violence as very formidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. But when I consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us, it seems to my poor understanding a little preposterous to make them unserviceable in order to keep them obedient. It is, in truth, nothing more than the old and, as I thought, exploded problem of tyranny, which proposes to beggar its subjects into submission.
Page 67 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwelling. He scorneth the multitude of the city, Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing.
Page 341 - A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
Page 67 - Of the passion caused by the sublime The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is Astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that object which employs it.
Page 326 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis'e Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 67 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.