The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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Page 31
... liberty is a good to be improved , and not an evil to be lessened . " It is not only a private blessing of the first order , but the vital spring and energy of the state itself , which has just so much life and vigour as there is liberty ...
... liberty is a good to be improved , and not an evil to be lessened . " It is not only a private blessing of the first order , but the vital spring and energy of the state itself , which has just so much life and vigour as there is liberty ...
Page 39
... liberty , is not only sur- prising , but hardly natural . This moral levelling is a servile principle . It leads to practical passive obedience far better than all the doctrines which the pliant accommodation of theology to power has ...
... liberty , is not only sur- prising , but hardly natural . This moral levelling is a servile principle . It leads to practical passive obedience far better than all the doctrines which the pliant accommodation of theology to power has ...
Page 40
... liberty cannot long exist . And indeed how is it possible ? when those who are to make the laws , to guard , to enforce , or to obey them , are , by a tacit confederacy of manners , indisposed to the spirit of all generous and noble ...
... liberty cannot long exist . And indeed how is it possible ? when those who are to make the laws , to guard , to enforce , or to obey them , are , by a tacit confederacy of manners , indisposed to the spirit of all generous and noble ...
Page 41
... Liberty is in danger of being made unpopular to Englishmen . Contending for an imaginary power , we begin to acquire the spirit of domination , and to lose the relish of honest equality . The principles of our forefathers become ...
... Liberty is in danger of being made unpopular to Englishmen . Contending for an imaginary power , we begin to acquire the spirit of domination , and to lose the relish of honest equality . The principles of our forefathers become ...
Page 46
... liberty of sug- gesting to you in my last letter , that Ireland is a country , in the same climate , and of the same natural qualities and pro- ductions , with this ; and has consequently no other means of growing wealthy in herself ...
... liberty of sug- gesting to you in my last letter , that Ireland is a country , in the same climate , and of the same natural qualities and pro- ductions , with this ; and has consequently no other means of growing wealthy in herself ...
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