Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke, Том 21804 |
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... nature is still further enfeebled by art and contrivance ? It must subvert government from the very foundation . It turns our public councils into the most mischievous cabals ; where the consideration is , not how the nation's business ...
... nature is still further enfeebled by art and contrivance ? It must subvert government from the very foundation . It turns our public councils into the most mischievous cabals ; where the consideration is , not how the nation's business ...
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... nature , that hinders us from perceiving and yielding to them : but we are not to suffer our vices to usurp the place of our judgment . **** A greater and more ruinous mistake cannot be fallen into , than that the trades of agriculture ...
... nature , that hinders us from perceiving and yielding to them : but we are not to suffer our vices to usurp the place of our judgment . **** A greater and more ruinous mistake cannot be fallen into , than that the trades of agriculture ...
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... nature of things , but in the vices of him who alleges it , the whining tones of common - place beggarly rhetoric , produce nothing but indignation ; because they indicate a desire of keeping up a dis- honourable existence , without ...
... nature of things , but in the vices of him who alleges it , the whining tones of common - place beggarly rhetoric , produce nothing but indignation ; because they indicate a desire of keeping up a dis- honourable existence , without ...
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... nature , and of a temper to soften animosities and to win confidence . He ought not to be a man odious to the person he treats with , by personal in- jury , by violence , or by deceit , or , above all , by the dereliction of his cause ...
... nature , and of a temper to soften animosities and to win confidence . He ought not to be a man odious to the person he treats with , by personal in- jury , by violence , or by deceit , or , above all , by the dereliction of his cause ...
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... nature . It operates as an instinct to secure property , and to preserve communities in a settled -state . What is there to shock in this ? Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order . It is the Corin- thian capital of polished ...
... nature . It operates as an instinct to secure property , and to preserve communities in a settled -state . What is there to shock in this ? Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order . It is the Corin- thian capital of polished ...
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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...