Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Between the Year 1744, and the Period of His Decease, in 1797, 1. kötetFrancis & John Rivington, 1844 |
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administration affairs affection affectionate answer appear assure Ballitore Beaconsfield believe brother Burke's Bute character charge Charles Townshend compliments conduct connexion conversation court DEAR LORD DEAR SHACKLETON DEAR SIR desire Dick discourses Dowdeswell Dublin Duke of Grafton Earl EDMUND BURKE endeavour father favour friendship gentlemen George Grenville GERARD HAMILTON give Grenville hear honour hope house of commons Ireland Irish Jephson justice kind Lady Rockingham late letter London Lord Albemarle Lord Chatham Lord Halifax Lord Rockingham lordship manner MARQUIS OF ROCKINGHAM matter mention ministry nature never obliged opinion parliament party pension persons politics present principles received regard respect Richard Burke RICHARD SHACKLETON ROBERT JEPHSON satisfaction sincerely sort suppose sure thing thought tion town Townshend treasury truth whole William William Burke WILLIAM GERARD HAMILTON wish write Yorkshire
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406. oldal - I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think ; Burke, how to speak ; And Beauclerk to converse. " Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace ; From him I'll learn to write ; Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite.
59. oldal - ... services (upon which partiality alone induces you to set any value) in the most disinterested manner, as far as I can do it, consistent with that freedom to which, for a long time, I have determined to sacrifice every consideration ; and which I never gave you the slightest assurance that I had any intention to surrender ; whatever my private resolves may have been in case an event had happened, which (so far as concerns myself) I rejoice never to have taken place ? You are kind enough to say,...
405. oldal - I lately thought no man alive Could e'er improve past forty-five, And ventured to assert it. The observation was not new, But seem'd to me so just and true That none could controvert it. ' No, sir,' says Johnson, ' 'tis not so; 'Tis your mistake, and I can show An instance, if you doubt it. You, who perhaps are forty-eight, May still improve, 'tis not too late: I wish you'd set about it.
22. oldal - I have often thought it a humorous consideration to observe and sum up all the madness of this kind I have fallen into this two years past. First, I was greatly taken with natural philosophy; which, while I should have given my mind to logic, employed me incessantly. This I call my furor mathematicus. But this worked off as soon as I began to read it in the college, as men by repletion cast off their stomachs .-all they have eaten. Then I turned back to logic and metaphysics. Here I remained a good...
406. oldal - Last thirty years thou shouldst review, And charm us thirty more. If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty—and Greek ; Smith how to think; Burke how to speak, And Beauclerk to converse.
77. oldal - ... very reproachful to himself, and extremely disgustful to me ; and though in private he has not justly fulfilled one of his engagements to me, yet I was so uneasy and awkward at coming to a breach, where I had once a close and intimate friendship, that I continued with a kind of desperate fidelity to adhere to his cause and person...
22. oldal - ... off their stomachs all they have eaten. Then I turned back to logic and metaphysics. Here I remained a good while, and with much pleasure, and this was my furor logicus ; a disease very common in the days of ignorance, and very uncommon in these enlightened times. Next succeeded the furor historicus, which also had its day, but is now no more ; being entirely absorbed in the furor poeticus...
25. oldal - I am no father, nor never was, except of some metaphorical children, which were extremely short-lived, and whilst they lived (as you know) too scandalous to be owned. I hope my present studies may be attended with more success; at least I have this comfort; that though a middling poet cannot be endured, there is some quarter for a middling lawyer.
77. oldal - ... intolerable demand, amounting to no less than a claim of servitude during the whole course of my life, without leaving me at any time a power either of getting forward with honour, or of retiring with tranquillity. This was really and truly the substance of his demand upon me, to which I need not tell you I refused with some degree of indignation to submit. On this we ceased to see each other, or to correspond, a good while before you left London. He then commenced, through the intervention of...
263. oldal - This would seem in favour of deep-ploughing, as nothing else than accomplishing, in a more perfect manner, those very ends for which you are induced to plough at all. But doubts here arise, only to be solved by experiment. First, is it quite certain that it is good for the ear and grain of farinaceous plants, that their roots should spread and descend into the ground to the greatest possible distances and depths? Is there not some limit in this ? We know that, in timber, what makes one part flourish,...