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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... itself a perpetual fource of dissention ; --- that the very names which distinguish them , are . sufficient to blow up envy and malice ; --- and that we need no other proof of the outrage thus offered to nature than the inftru- ments of ...
... itself a perpetual fource of dissention ; --- that the very names which distinguish them , are . sufficient to blow up envy and malice ; --- and that we need no other proof of the outrage thus offered to nature than the inftru- ments of ...
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... itself , and independent of the countenance of the court . What has been said of the chief , is true of the in- ferior officers of this species of government , each in his province exercising the same tyranny , and grinding the people ...
... itself , and independent of the countenance of the court . What has been said of the chief , is true of the in- ferior officers of this species of government , each in his province exercising the same tyranny , and grinding the people ...
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... itself : it has been declared as fully by the actual voice of the people without these assemblies , as by the constructive voice within them ; as well by those who addressed , as by those who remonstrated ; and it is as much the avowed ...
... itself : it has been declared as fully by the actual voice of the people without these assemblies , as by the constructive voice within them ; as well by those who addressed , as by those who remonstrated ; and it is as much the avowed ...
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... itself , much more clearly and peculiarly is it the ground of all parliamentary power . Parliament is a security provided for the protection of freedom , and not a fubtle fiction contrived to amuse the people in its place ; and the ...
... itself , much more clearly and peculiarly is it the ground of all parliamentary power . Parliament is a security provided for the protection of freedom , and not a fubtle fiction contrived to amuse the people in its place ; and the ...
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Charles M'Cormick. whenever an arbitrary will finds itself streightened by the re- strictions of law . Had it seemed good to parliament to confider itself as the indulgent guardian and strong protector of the free- dom of the fubordinate ...
Charles M'Cormick. whenever an arbitrary will finds itself streightened by the re- strictions of law . Had it seemed good to parliament to confider itself as the indulgent guardian and strong protector of the free- dom of the fubordinate ...
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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.