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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... honour , while he elevated the dignity of human nature . His parents lived in a state of decent mediocrity , equally removed from penury and opulence . It was his good fortune to be placed at a very early period under the instruction of ...
... honour , while he elevated the dignity of human nature . His parents lived in a state of decent mediocrity , equally removed from penury and opulence . It was his good fortune to be placed at a very early period under the instruction of ...
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... honour and emolument to the rank of a ftudent at Chrift Church , Oxford . As foon as he took his batchelor's degree in 1749 , he came over to London , and entered himself a member of the honour- able fociety of the Middle Temple , with ...
... honour and emolument to the rank of a ftudent at Chrift Church , Oxford . As foon as he took his batchelor's degree in 1749 , he came over to London , and entered himself a member of the honour- able fociety of the Middle Temple , with ...
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... honour , the oblivion of all duty to our country , and the most abandoned public prostitution , the writer inveighs against the perversion of justice , the delay and uncertainty of the law , and the tendency of all governments to reduce ...
... honour , the oblivion of all duty to our country , and the most abandoned public prostitution , the writer inveighs against the perversion of justice , the delay and uncertainty of the law , and the tendency of all governments to reduce ...
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... honours of age . Mr. BURKE foon began to derive more fubftantial advantages than mere applause from his Effay on the Sublime and Beautiful . His father , who always had a favorable , though not a fufficiently enlarged idea of young ...
... honours of age . Mr. BURKE foon began to derive more fubftantial advantages than mere applause from his Effay on the Sublime and Beautiful . His father , who always had a favorable , though not a fufficiently enlarged idea of young ...
الصفحة 40
... honour and confidence , of which his grace had ever been extremely ambitious . While the arrangements were making out , he expreffed to a few confidential friends the utmost anxiety to carry his favorite point ; and having left them in ...
... honour and confidence , of which his grace had ever been extremely ambitious . While the arrangements were making out , he expreffed to a few confidential friends the utmost anxiety to carry his favorite point ; and having left them in ...
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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.