Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke, Том 21804 |
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... ground of a particular measure , making a part of a plan , it is rarely proper to divulge ; all the broader grounds of policy on which the general plan is to be adopted , ought as rarely to be concealed . They who have not the whole ...
... ground of a particular measure , making a part of a plan , it is rarely proper to divulge ; all the broader grounds of policy on which the general plan is to be adopted , ought as rarely to be concealed . They who have not the whole ...
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... change , upon any plausible grounds , desire it on different ideas . **** Virtual representation is that in which there is a communion of interests , and a sympathy in feelings and desires between those who act in the name of 14.
... change , upon any plausible grounds , desire it on different ideas . **** Virtual representation is that in which there is a communion of interests , and a sympathy in feelings and desires between those who act in the name of 14.
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... ground to the last , and if forced to retreat , how little he shall give up , this kind of man considers how much of the interest of his em- ployer he is to sacrifice to his adversary . Having no- thing but himself in view , he knows ...
... ground to the last , and if forced to retreat , how little he shall give up , this kind of man considers how much of the interest of his em- ployer he is to sacrifice to his adversary . Having no- thing but himself in view , he knows ...
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... grounds , is thoroughly heated against its form . When a man is , from system , furi- ous against monarchy or episcopacy , the good con- duct of the monarch or the bishop has no other effect than further to irritate the adversary . He ...
... grounds , is thoroughly heated against its form . When a man is , from system , furi- ous against monarchy or episcopacy , the good con- duct of the monarch or the bishop has no other effect than further to irritate the adversary . He ...
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... ground of friendship and attachment ; nor do I know any other capable of forming firmer , dearer , more pleasing , more honour- able , and more virtuous habitudes . The Romans car- ried this principle a great way . Even the holding 38.
... ground of friendship and attachment ; nor do I know any other capable of forming firmer , dearer , more pleasing , more honour- able , and more virtuous habitudes . The Romans car- ried this principle a great way . Even the holding 38.
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Сторінка 91 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Сторінка 105 - The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes ; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. Th6 rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned. The rights of men in governments are their advantages ; and these are often in balances between differences of good ; in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes, between evil and evil.
Сторінка 80 - The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science; because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate...
Сторінка 41 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle...
Сторінка 75 - It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigour and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth ; so to be patriots, as not to forget we are gentlemen.
Сторінка 101 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.
Сторінка 26 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.
Сторінка 103 - ... inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection. This can only be done by a power out of themselves ; and not, in the exercise of its function, subject to that will and to those passions which it is its office to bridle and sub102 due. In this sense the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.
Сторінка 139 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of...