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 من الصفحات |
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... fubject , to dwell on circumftances of little importance , or of ge- neral notoriety , fuch as the birth - place and family of Mr. Burke . All that we need obferve concerning these matters is , that he was born in the year 1729 , near ...
... fubject , to dwell on circumftances of little importance , or of ge- neral notoriety , fuch as the birth - place and family of Mr. Burke . All that we need obferve concerning these matters is , that he was born in the year 1729 , near ...
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... fubject , I should make it a large- quarto , and should give a keener edge to every argument ; for I really think that our establishments both in church and state will never be fecure , without an abfolute extermination of the papifts ...
... fubject , I should make it a large- quarto , and should give a keener edge to every argument ; for I really think that our establishments both in church and state will never be fecure , without an abfolute extermination of the papifts ...
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... fubject to many and great inconveniencies . " Want of union , " fays he , " want of mutual affistance , want of a com- mon arbitrator to refort to in their differences --- these were evils , which they could not but have felt pretty ...
... fubject to many and great inconveniencies . " Want of union , " fays he , " want of mutual affistance , want of a com- mon arbitrator to refort to in their differences --- these were evils , which they could not but have felt pretty ...
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... fubject of hiftory , --- that the first accounts we had of mankind were but fo many accounts of their butcheries , --- that all empires had been cemented in blood , --- and that , when the race of mankind began first to form themselves ...
... fubject of hiftory , --- that the first accounts we had of mankind were but fo many accounts of their butcheries , --- that all empires had been cemented in blood , --- and that , when the race of mankind began first to form themselves ...
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... fubject , and that it was necessary to abridge the farther furvey of affliction , without weakening the force of his main argument . Stopping fhort , therefore , as if feized with horror at the task he had under- taken , and turning to ...
... fubject , and that it was necessary to abridge the farther furvey of affliction , without weakening the force of his main argument . Stopping fhort , therefore , as if feized with horror at the task he had under- taken , and turning to ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 38 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.