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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... prefent population of the whole earth be computed at five hun- dred millions at the moft , the flaughter of mankind , as he states it , amounts to upwards of feventy times the number of fouls this day on the globe . When he comes to ...
... prefent population of the whole earth be computed at five hun- dred millions at the moft , the flaughter of mankind , as he states it , amounts to upwards of feventy times the number of fouls this day on the globe . When he comes to ...
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... prefent perfection of gunnery , cannoneering , bombarding , mining , and all these species of artificial , learned , and refined cruelty , in which we are now fo expert , and which make a principal part of what politicians have taught ...
... prefent perfection of gunnery , cannoneering , bombarding , mining , and all these species of artificial , learned , and refined cruelty , in which we are now fo expert , and which make a principal part of what politicians have taught ...
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... prefent lord ST . HELENS , took Mr. BURKE by the hand , and introduced him to the marquis as not only well qualified for fuch an appointment , but eminently deferving his lordship's confidence and esteem . The The vacancy was ...
... prefent lord ST . HELENS , took Mr. BURKE by the hand , and introduced him to the marquis as not only well qualified for fuch an appointment , but eminently deferving his lordship's confidence and esteem . The The vacancy was ...
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... prefent office , and that he had lord SHELBURNE to propofe for the other office , then held by the duke of RICHMOND ; fo that there remained no room for lord GOWER . This , lord TEMPLE faid , was coming to his first pro◅ . pofition of ...
... prefent office , and that he had lord SHELBURNE to propofe for the other office , then held by the duke of RICHMOND ; fo that there remained no room for lord GOWER . This , lord TEMPLE faid , was coming to his first pro◅ . pofition of ...
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... Prefent State of England would last you feven years , and needed no more to be renewed annually , than a family bible or a whole duty of Man ; but now you can no more guess who is in office to - day , by the court - kalendar of last ...
... Prefent State of England would last you feven years , and needed no more to be renewed annually , than a family bible or a whole duty of Man ; but now you can no more guess who is in office to - day , by the court - kalendar of last ...
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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.