The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].1792 |
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13. oldal
... whilst the real productive caufe of all this fuperftitious folly , enthusiastical nonfenfe , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are otherwise enlightened . Civil government borrows a ftrength ...
... whilst the real productive caufe of all this fuperftitious folly , enthusiastical nonfenfe , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are otherwise enlightened . Civil government borrows a ftrength ...
31. oldal
... whilst he perfuades the prince , that those murmurs raised by his own oppreffion are the effects of difaffection to the prince's government . Then is the natural violence of defpotifm inflamed , and aggravated by hatred and revenge . To ...
... whilst he perfuades the prince , that those murmurs raised by his own oppreffion are the effects of difaffection to the prince's government . Then is the natural violence of defpotifm inflamed , and aggravated by hatred and revenge . To ...
33. oldal
... whilst it presents a vain fhadow of happiness to the fubject , binds fafter the chains of his fubjection . What is left undone , by the natural avarice and pride of those who are raised above the others , is compleated by their ...
... whilst it presents a vain fhadow of happiness to the fubject , binds fafter the chains of his fubjection . What is left undone , by the natural avarice and pride of those who are raised above the others , is compleated by their ...
44. oldal
... whilst the business of government should be carrying on , the question is , Who has a right to exercise this or that function of it , or what men men have power to keep their offices in any function 44 . OF A VINDICATION.
... whilst the business of government should be carrying on , the question is , Who has a right to exercise this or that function of it , or what men men have power to keep their offices in any function 44 . OF A VINDICATION.
45. oldal
... whilst the ballance in any fort continues , it has never any remiffion ; all manner of abufes and villanies in officers remain unpunished , the greatest frauds and robberies in the publick revenues are committed in defiance of justice ...
... whilst the ballance in any fort continues , it has never any remiffion ; all manner of abufes and villanies in officers remain unpunished , the greatest frauds and robberies in the publick revenues are committed in defiance of justice ...
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76. oldal - ... a sort of creative power of its own; either in representing at pleasure the images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses, or in combining those images in a new manner, and according to a different order.
564. oldal - ... patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
99. oldal - Without all doubt, the torments which we may be made to suffer are much greater in their effect on the body and mind, than any pleasures which the most learned voluptuary could suggest, or than the liveliest imagination, and the most sound and exquisitely sensible body, could enjoy.
115. oldal - ... as for those called critics, they have generally sought the rule of the arts in the wrong place; they sought it among poems, pictures, engravings, statues, and buildings. But art can never give the rules that make an art. This is, I believe, the reason why artists in general, and poets principally, have been confined in so narrow a circle: they have been rather imitators of one another than of nature...
112. oldal - Now whatever either on good or upon bad grounds tends to raise a man in his own opinion, produces a sort of swelling and triumph that is extremely grateful to the human mind; and this swelling is never more perceived, nor operates with more force, than when without danger we are conversant with terrible objects, the mind always claiming to itself some part of the dignity and importance of the things which it contemplates.
574. oldal - Sir, let the gentlemen on the other side call forth all their ability, let the best of them get up and tell me, what one character of liberty the Americans have, and what one brand of slavery they are free from, if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce, and at the same time are made packhorses of every tax you choose to impose, without the least share in granting them. When they bear the...
523. oldal - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him. a slave.
105. oldal - The satisfaction has been commonly attributed, first, to the comfort we receive in considering that so melancholy a story...
192. oldal - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
122. oldal - IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination. If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landscape, I present a very clear idea of those objects; but...