The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3C. C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 |
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... observe that these rights and this succession are declared in one body , and bound indissolu- bly together . A few years after this period , a second opportunity offered for asserting a right of election to the crown . On the prospect ...
... observe that these rights and this succession are declared in one body , and bound indissolu- bly together . A few years after this period , a second opportunity offered for asserting a right of election to the crown . On the prospect ...
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... observe how lord Somers , who drew the bill called the Declaration of Right , has comported himself on that delicate occasion . It is curious to observe with what address this temporary solution of continuity is kept from the eye ...
... observe how lord Somers , who drew the bill called the Declaration of Right , has comported himself on that delicate occasion . It is curious to observe with what address this temporary solution of continuity is kept from the eye ...
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... observe , that from magna charta to the declara- tion of right , it has been the uniform policy of our constitu- tion to claim and assert our liberties , as an entailed inherit- ance derived to us from our forefathers , and to be ...
... observe , that from magna charta to the declara- tion of right , it has been the uniform policy of our constitu- tion to claim and assert our liberties , as an entailed inherit- ance derived to us from our forefathers , and to be ...
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... observe it with any attention , goes much further than to an alteration in the elec- tion of the house of commons ; for , if popular representation , or choice , is necessary to the legitimacy of all government , the house of lords is ...
... observe it with any attention , goes much further than to an alteration in the elec- tion of the house of commons ; for , if popular representation , or choice , is necessary to the legitimacy of all government , the house of lords is ...
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... observe whether , in the proceedings of the national assembly , I might not find reasons to change or to qualify some of my first senti- ments . Every thing has confirmed me more strongly in my first opinions . It was my original ...
... observe whether , in the proceedings of the national assembly , I might not find reasons to change or to qualify some of my first senti- ments . Every thing has confirmed me more strongly in my first opinions . It was my original ...
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Page 120 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Page 98 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 195 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Page 81 - Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
Page 99 - On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom, as it is destitute of all taste and elegance, laws are to be supported only by their own terrors, and by the concern, which each individual may find in them, from his own private speculations, or can spare to them from his own private interests. In the groves of their academy, at the end of every visto, you see nothing but the gallows.
Page 99 - All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded, as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.
Page 120 - Subordinate contracts for (jectsot mere xiflUaSlBHSHntewBt may be dissolved at pleasure — but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Page 119 - ... we have consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution ; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
Page 110 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
Page 98 - Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom...