The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3C. C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 |
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... minds of the people . By this mad declaration they subverted the state ; and brought on such calamities as no country , without a long war , has ever been known to suffer , and which may in the end produce such a war , and perhaps ...
... minds of the people . By this mad declaration they subverted the state ; and brought on such calamities as no country , without a long war , has ever been known to suffer , and which may in the end produce such a war , and perhaps ...
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... minds . A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter , so capable of supporting itself , by the then unnecessary sup- port of any argument ; but this seditious , unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught , avowed ...
... minds . A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter , so capable of supporting itself , by the then unnecessary sup- port of any argument ; but this seditious , unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught , avowed ...
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... minds . The speculative line of demarcation , where obedience ought to end , and resistance must begin , is faint , obscure , and not easily definable . It is not a single act , or a single event , which determines it . Governments must ...
... minds . The speculative line of demarcation , where obedience ought to end , and resistance must begin , is faint , obscure , and not easily definable . It is not a single act , or a single event , which determines it . Governments must ...
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... minds of all our lawyers and legislators , and of all the people whom they wish to influence , have been always filled ; and the stationary policy of this kingdom in considering their most sacred rights and franchises as an inheritance ...
... minds of all our lawyers and legislators , and of all the people whom they wish to influence , have been always filled ; and the stationary policy of this kingdom in considering their most sacred rights and franchises as an inheritance ...
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... minds , would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention , and laborious , low , and unprofitable chicane ? Who could doubt but that , at any expense to the state , of which they understood nothing , they must ...
... minds , would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention , and laborious , low , and unprofitable chicane ? Who could doubt but that , at any expense to the state , of which they understood nothing , they must ...
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Page 52 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 120 - Society is indeed a contract.] Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest 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 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 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 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...
Page 101 - ... and paid it with usury, by enlarging their ideas, and by furnishing their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Page 326 - Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites ; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity ; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption ; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed...
Page 100 - Nothing is left which engages the affections on the part of the commonwealth. On the principles of this mechanic philosophy, our institutions can never be embodied, if I may use the expression, in persons, so as to create in us love, veneration, admiration, or attachment. But that sort of reason which banishes the affections is incapable of filling their place. These public affections, combined with manners, are required, sometimes as supplements, sometimes as correctives, always as aids to law.
Page 45 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page 102 - I wish you may not be going fast, and by the shortest cut, to that horrible and disgustful situation. Already there appears a poverty of conception, a coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings of the assembly and of all their instructors. Their liberty is not liberal. Their science is presumptuous ignorance. Their humanity is savage and brutal.