The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3C. C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 |
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... means of intro- ducing a democracy like theirs , as well as to the end itself , that much as it would afflict him , if such a thing could be attempted , and that any friend of his could concur in such measures , ( he was far , very far ...
... means of intro- ducing a democracy like theirs , as well as to the end itself , that much as it would afflict him , if such a thing could be attempted , and that any friend of his could concur in such measures , ( he was far , very far ...
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... means of knowing how many they are ; who they are ; and of what value their opinions may be , from their personal abilities , from their knowledge , their experience , or their lead and au- thority in this state . To me , who am but a ...
... means of knowing how many they are ; who they are ; and of what value their opinions may be , from their personal abilities , from their knowledge , their experience , or their lead and au- thority in this state . To me , who am but a ...
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... means unconcerned for yours , I wish to communicate more largely , what was at first intended only for your private satis- faction . I shall still keep your affairs in my eye , and continue to address myself to you . Indulging myself in ...
... means unconcerned for yours , I wish to communicate more largely , what was at first intended only for your private satis- faction . I shall still keep your affairs in my eye , and continue to address myself to you . Indulging myself in ...
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... means of some change is without the means of its conservation . Without such means it might even risk the loss of that part of the constitution which it wished the most religiously to preserve . The two princi- ples of conservation and ...
... means of some change is without the means of its conservation . Without such means it might even risk the loss of that part of the constitution which it wished the most religiously to preserve . The two princi- ples of conservation and ...
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... mean to imitate some of their predecessors , who dragged the bodies of our ancient sovereigns out of the quiet of their tombs ? Do they mean to attaint and disable back- wards all the kings that have reigned before the revolution , and ...
... mean to imitate some of their predecessors , who dragged the bodies of our ancient sovereigns out of the quiet of their tombs ? Do they mean to attaint and disable back- wards all the kings that have reigned before the revolution , and ...
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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...