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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... perfons to form one family : he therefore judged that he would find his ac- count proportionably in an union of many families into one body politic ; and , as nature has formed no bond of union to hold them together , he fupplied this ...
... perfons to form one family : he therefore judged that he would find his ac- count proportionably in an union of many families into one body politic ; and , as nature has formed no bond of union to hold them together , he fupplied this ...
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... perfons concerned , are not taken into the account . Thefe wars , I mean thofe called the Punic wars , could not have ftood the human race in less than three millions of the fpecies : and yet this forms but a part only , and a very ...
... perfons concerned , are not taken into the account . Thefe wars , I mean thofe called the Punic wars , could not have ftood the human race in less than three millions of the fpecies : and yet this forms but a part only , and a very ...
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... perfons become victims of his fufpicions . The flightest displeasure is death ; and a disagreeable afpect is often as great a crime as high treason . In the court of NERO , a perfon of learning , of unquestioned merit , and of un ...
... perfons become victims of his fufpicions . The flightest displeasure is death ; and a disagreeable afpect is often as great a crime as high treason . In the court of NERO , a perfon of learning , of unquestioned merit , and of un ...
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... perfons . For the gross of the people , --- they are confidered as a mere herd of cattle , [ a milder phrase than the fwinish multitude ] and really in a little time become no better : all principle of honeft pride , --- all fenfe of ...
... perfons . For the gross of the people , --- they are confidered as a mere herd of cattle , [ a milder phrase than the fwinish multitude ] and really in a little time become no better : all principle of honeft pride , --- all fenfe of ...
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... perfons , and can call their officers to account for any breach of truft , or failure of duty . But if we refer to the histories of the most celebrated republics , we shall find every one of them to be a tiffue of rashness , folly ...
... perfons , and can call their officers to account for any breach of truft , or failure of duty . But if we refer to the histories of the most celebrated republics , we shall find every one of them to be a tiffue of rashness , folly ...
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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.