The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3C. C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 |
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... constitution . That the house must perceive , from his coming forward to mark an expression or two of his best friend , how anxious he was to keep the distemper of France from the least coun- tenance in England , where he was sure some ...
... constitution . That the house must perceive , from his coming forward to mark an expression or two of his best friend , how anxious he was to keep the distemper of France from the least coun- tenance in England , where he was sure some ...
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... constitution , when they were absolutely in possession of a good one . They were in possession of it the day the states met in separate orders . Their business , had they been either virtuous , or wise , or had been left to their own ...
... constitution , when they were absolutely in possession of a good one . They were in possession of it the day the states met in separate orders . Their business , had they been either virtuous , or wise , or had been left to their own ...
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Edmund Burke. balances existed in their oldest constitution ; and in the con- stitution of this country ; and in the constitution of all the countries in Europe . These they rashly destroyed , and then they melted down the whole into one ...
Edmund Burke. balances existed in their oldest constitution ; and in the con- stitution of this country ; and in the constitution of all the countries in Europe . These they rashly destroyed , and then they melted down the whole into one ...
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... constitution we made no revolution ; no , nor any alteration at all . We did not impair the monarchy . Perhaps it might be shewn that we strengthened it very considerably . The nation kept the same ranks , the same orders , the same ...
... constitution we made no revolution ; no , nor any alteration at all . We did not impair the monarchy . Perhaps it might be shewn that we strengthened it very considerably . The nation kept the same ranks , the same orders , the same ...
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... constitution itself , he wished few alterations in it . Happy if he left it not the worse for any share he had taken in its service . Mr. Fox then rose , and declared , in substance , that so far as regarded the French army , he went no ...
... constitution itself , he wished few alterations in it . Happy if he left it not the worse for any share he had taken in its service . Mr. Fox then rose , and declared , in substance , that so far as regarded the French army , he went no ...
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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 - ... 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 vista, 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 79 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.
Page 118 - And first of all, the science of jurisprudence, the pride of the human intellect, which, with all its defects, redundancies, and errors, is the collected reason of ages, combining the principles of original justice with the infinite variety of human concerns, as a heap of old exploded errors, would be no longer studied.
Page 45 - That king James the Second, 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 become vacant.
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 35 - Parliament was made intituled an Act for declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and for settling the succession of the crown...