The Works of ... Edmund Burke, 5. kötetF. & C. Rivington, 1803 |
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89. oldal
... measure , it is com- posed , which is of ten thousand times greater con , sequence than all the formalities in the world . If we were to know nothing of this affembly but by its title and function , no colours could paint to the ...
... measure , it is com- posed , which is of ten thousand times greater con , sequence than all the formalities in the world . If we were to know nothing of this affembly but by its title and function , no colours could paint to the ...
122. oldal
... measure abandons the right of felf - defence , the first law of nature . Men can- not enjoy the rights of an uncivil and of a civil state together . That he may obtain justice , he gives up his right of determining , what it is in ...
... measure abandons the right of felf - defence , the first law of nature . Men can- not enjoy the rights of an uncivil and of a civil state together . That he may obtain justice , he gives up his right of determining , what it is in ...
136. oldal
... measures are decided before they are debated . It is beyond doubt , that under the terrour of the bayonet , and the lamp - post , and the torch to their houses , they are obliged to adopt all the crude and defpe- rate measures suggested ...
... measures are decided before they are debated . It is beyond doubt , that under the terrour of the bayonet , and the lamp - post , and the torch to their houses , they are obliged to adopt all the crude and defpe- rate measures suggested ...
169. oldal
... measure of confidence in their own . With them it is a sufficient motive to de- stroy an old fcheme of things , because it is an old one . As to the new , they are in no fort of fear with regard to the duration of a building run up in ...
... measure of confidence in their own . With them it is a sufficient motive to de- stroy an old fcheme of things , because it is an old one . As to the new , they are in no fort of fear with regard to the duration of a building run up in ...
178. oldal
... measure , their own instruments . They are nearer to their . objects . Besides , they are less under responsibility . to one of the greatest controlling powers on earth , the sense of fame and estimation . The share of infamy that is ...
... measure , their own instruments . They are nearer to their . objects . Besides , they are less under responsibility . to one of the greatest controlling powers on earth , the sense of fame and estimation . The share of infamy that is ...
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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?