The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflectionsJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind . Abstractedly speaking , go- vernment , 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 ...
... scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind . Abstractedly speaking , go- vernment , 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 ...
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... scheme of " cashiering kings for misconduct . " In that light it is worth some observation . Kings , in one sense , are undoubtedly the ser- vants of the people , because their power has no other rational end than that of the general ...
... scheme of " cashiering kings for misconduct . " In that light it is worth some observation . Kings , in one sense , are undoubtedly the ser- vants of the people , because their power has no other rational end than that of the general ...
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... scheme of politics re- lative to this country , in which your proceedings may , in some way , be useful . For your Dr. Price , who seems to have speculated himself into no small degree of fervor upon this subject , addresses his ...
... scheme of politics re- lative to this country , in which your proceedings may , in some way , be useful . For your Dr. Price , who seems to have speculated himself into no small degree of fervor upon this subject , addresses his ...
Сторінка 84
... from the ill effects it pro- duces in the beginning . The reverse also happens ; and very plausible schemes , with very pleasing commencements , have often shameful and lament- able conclusions . 84 BURKE'S REFLECTIONS .
... from the ill effects it pro- duces in the beginning . The reverse also happens ; and very plausible schemes , with very pleasing commencements , have often shameful and lament- able conclusions . 84 BURKE'S REFLECTIONS .
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... schemes of politics not adapted to the state of the world in which they live , they often come to think lightly of all public principle ; and are ready , on their part , to abandon for a very trivial interest what they find of very ...
... schemes of politics not adapted to the state of the world in which they live , they often come to think lightly of all public principle ; and are ready , on their part , to abandon for a very trivial interest what they find of very ...
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abuse amongst ancient appear archbishop of Paris army assignats authority become body called canton cardinal of Lorraine cause cern choice church citizens civil clergy common confiscation consider considerable constitution contrivances crimes crown Declaration despotism ecclesiastical effect election England equal establishment estates evil existence favour France gentlemen habits hereditary honour house of commons house of lords human interest justice king king of France kingdom land lative legislative liberty mankind means ment military mind minister monarchy moral municipalities National Assembly nature Necker neral never nobility obedience object obliged officers Old Jewry opinion Paris parliament persons political possessed present preserve principles racter reason religion render representation republic revenue Revolution Society ruin scheme sion sort sovereign spirit thing third estate tion true tyranny vices virtue wealth whilst whole wholly wisdom
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Сторінка 135 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Сторінка 107 - But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which by a bland assimilation incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason.
Сторінка 106 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Сторінка 105 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Сторінка 82 - One of the first motives to civil society, and which becomes one of its fundamental rules, is, that no man should be judge in his own cause.
Сторінка 122 - Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit : and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
Сторінка 11 - I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the object, as it stands, stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to...
Сторінка 47 - ... 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.
Сторінка 48 - Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.
Сторінка 47 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable, and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.