The Works of ... Edmund Burke, 5. kötetF. & C. Rivington, 1803 |
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96. oldal
... expence , to change their ideal paper wealth for the more folid substance of land . To these were joined men of other descriptions , from whom as little knowledge of or attention to the interests of a great state was to be expected ...
... expence , to change their ideal paper wealth for the more folid substance of land . To these were joined men of other descriptions , from whom as little knowledge of or attention to the interests of a great state was to be expected ...
114. oldal
... expence of their fellow - subjects ? Is a compulfory paper currency to be substituted in the place of the legal coin of this kingdom ? Is what remains of the plundered stock of pub- lick revenue to be employed in the wild project of ...
... expence of their fellow - subjects ? Is a compulfory paper currency to be substituted in the place of the legal coin of this kingdom ? Is what remains of the plundered stock of pub- lick revenue to be employed in the wild project of ...
213. oldal
... expences of the duke de Choiseul have left any thing of the infinite sums which he had derived from the bounty of his master , during the transactions of a reign which contributed largely , by every species of prodigality in war and ...
... expences of the duke de Choiseul have left any thing of the infinite sums which he had derived from the bounty of his master , during the transactions of a reign which contributed largely , by every species of prodigality in war and ...
219. oldal
... expences . He stated the permanent charges of all descriptions , including the interest of a new loan of four hundred millions , at 531,444,000 livres ; the fixed revenue at 475,294,000 , making the de- ficiency 56,150,000 , or short of ...
... expences . He stated the permanent charges of all descriptions , including the interest of a new loan of four hundred millions , at 531,444,000 livres ; the fixed revenue at 475,294,000 , making the de- ficiency 56,150,000 , or short of ...
223. oldal
... expence of about 24 millions , or a little more than a million sterling . They were exempted from the twentieths ; but then they made free gifts ; they contracted debts for the state ; and they were subject to some other charges , the ...
... expence of about 24 millions , or a little more than a million sterling . They were exempted from the twentieths ; but then they made free gifts ; they contracted debts for the state ; and they were subject to some other charges , 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?