The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1John West and O.C. Greenleaf, 1806 - Great Britain |
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... proportion of rage and fury in their composition than we have . But with respect to you , ye legislators , ye civilizers of mankind ! ye Orpheuses , Moseses , Minoses , Solons , Thes- euses , Lycurguses , Numas ! with respect to you be ...
... proportion of rage and fury in their composition than we have . But with respect to you , ye legislators , ye civilizers of mankind ! ye Orpheuses , Moseses , Minoses , Solons , Thes- euses , Lycurguses , Numas ! with respect to you be ...
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... proportion to the greatness of his services . Agricola is a strong instance of this . No man had done greater things , nor with more hon- est ambition . Yet on his return to court , he was obliged to enter Rome with all the secrecy of a ...
... proportion to the greatness of his services . Agricola is a strong instance of this . No man had done greater things , nor with more hon- est ambition . Yet on his return to court , he was obliged to enter Rome with all the secrecy of a ...
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... proportion to those whom they held in a slavery , even more terrible than the Athenian . Therefore state the matter fairly : the free states never form- ed , though they were taken altogether , the thousandth part of the habitable globe ...
... proportion to those whom they held in a slavery , even more terrible than the Athenian . Therefore state the matter fairly : the free states never form- ed , though they were taken altogether , the thousandth part of the habitable globe ...
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... proportion as we have devi- ated from the plain rule of our nature , and turned our reason against itself , in that proportion have we increased the follies and miseries of mankind . The more deeply we penetrate into the labyrinth of ...
... proportion as we have devi- ated from the plain rule of our nature , and turned our reason against itself , in that proportion have we increased the follies and miseries of mankind . The more deeply we penetrate into the labyrinth of ...
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... proportion to those of the latter . The whole business of the poor is to administer to the idleness , folly , and luxury of the rich ; and that of the rich , in return , is to find the best methods of confirming the slavery and ...
... proportion to those of the latter . The whole business of the poor is to administer to the idleness , folly , and luxury of the rich ; and that of the rich , in return , is to find the best methods of confirming the slavery and ...
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Page 110 - 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.
Page 111 - 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...
Page 320 - It is reconciled in policy ; and politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature ; of which the reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part.
Page 488 - The Parliament of Great Britain sits at the head of her extensive empire in two capacities: one as the local legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power; the other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial character, in which as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferior legislatures, and guides and controls them all, without annihilating any.
Page 486 - Be content to bind America by laws of trade; you have always done it. Let this be your reason for binding their trade. Do not burden them by taxes ; you were not used to do so from the beginning. Let this be your reason for not taxing. These are the arguments of states and kingdoms. Leave the rest to the schools; for there only they may be discussed with safety.
Page 444 - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.
Page 163 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out 140 With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 107 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 208 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Page 107 - When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes. Every one will be sensible of this who considers how greatly night adds to our dread in all cases of danger, and how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect minds which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings.