The Works of ... Edmund Burke, 5. kötetF. & C. Rivington, 1803 |
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11. oldal
... fure fome wicked persons had shewn a strong difpofition to recommend an imitation of the French spirit of reform . He was so strongly opposed to any the least tendency towards the means of introducing a democracy like theirs , as well ...
... fure fome wicked persons had shewn a strong difpofition to recommend an imitation of the French spirit of reform . He was so strongly opposed to any the least tendency towards the means of introducing a democracy like theirs , as well ...
23. oldal
... fure ground for the confidence of his coun- try . But he had been fearful , that cabals of very different intentions , would be ready to make ufe of his great name , against his character and senti- ments , in order to derive a credit ...
... fure ground for the confidence of his coun- try . But he had been fearful , that cabals of very different intentions , would be ready to make ufe of his great name , against his character and senti- ments , in order to derive a credit ...
33. oldal
Edmund Burke. vern . But I never heard that any publick mea- fure , or political system , much less that the merits of the constitution of any foreign nation , had been the fubject of a formal proceeding at their festivals ; until , to ...
Edmund Burke. vern . But I never heard that any publick mea- fure , or political system , much less that the merits of the constitution of any foreign nation , had been the fubject of a formal proceeding at their festivals ; until , to ...
37. oldal
... fure , before I venture publickly to congratulate men upon a blessing , that they have really re- ceived one . Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver ; and adulation is not of more fer- vice to the people than to kings . I ...
... fure , before I venture publickly to congratulate men upon a blessing , that they have really re- ceived one . Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver ; and adulation is not of more fer- vice to the people than to kings . I ...
48. oldal
... fure , all the beginners of dynasties were chofen by those who called them to govern . There is ground enough for the opinion that all the kingdoms of Europe were at a remote period , elective , with more or fewer limitations in the ...
... fure , all the beginners of dynasties were chofen by those who called them to govern . There is ground enough for the opinion that all the kingdoms of Europe were at a remote period , elective , with more or fewer limitations in the ...
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79. oldal - ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
121. oldal - But he has not a right to an equal dividend in the product of the joint stock; and as to the share of power, authority, and direction which each individual ought to have in the management of the state, that I must deny to be amongst the direct original rights of man in civil society; for I have in my contemplation the civil social man, and no other.
42. oldal - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
184. oldal - It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection.
79. oldal - The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of Providence, are handed down to us, and from us in the same course and order. Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory, parts...
183. oldal - ... approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
79. oldal - By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.
172. oldal - Who, born within the last forty years, has read one word of Collins, and Toland, and Tindal, and Chubb, and Morgan, and that whole race who called themselves Freethinkers? Who now reads Bolingbroke? Who ever read him through?
78. oldal - You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
36. oldal - Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered?