The Life of Edmund Burke: Comprehending and Impartial Account of His Literary and Political Efforts, and a Sketch of the Conduct and Character of His Most Eminent Associates, Coadjutors, and Opponents, Volumen2Printed and pub. by G. Cawthorn, 1800 |
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... circumstances , 254 - but not from vicious habits , 255. Be- nevolence and liberality of private character , 256. Mistake about laudanum . , in attempting a medicinal application , 257 , Death of Sir Joshua Reynolds , 257. Burke's ...
... circumstances , 254 - but not from vicious habits , 255. Be- nevolence and liberality of private character , 256. Mistake about laudanum . , in attempting a medicinal application , 257 , Death of Sir Joshua Reynolds , 257. Burke's ...
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... circumstances in the conduct of life . From his speeches and writings might be formed a collection of moral and political maxims of the strictest truth and highest importance , but which are not in- troduced in an abstract form : they ...
... circumstances in the conduct of life . From his speeches and writings might be formed a collection of moral and political maxims of the strictest truth and highest importance , but which are not in- troduced in an abstract form : they ...
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... circumstance distinct from the intrinsic merit of the question rendered it at this time remarkable : on it WILLIAM PITT made his first speech in the House of Commons . Mr. Pitt was now in the twenty - second ' year of his age , when he ...
... circumstance distinct from the intrinsic merit of the question rendered it at this time remarkable : on it WILLIAM PITT made his first speech in the House of Commons . Mr. Pitt was now in the twenty - second ' year of his age , when he ...
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... circumstances and situations ,. and not to receive it implicitly , and without the proper limits and qualifications . Per- haps , indeed , there is not a more striking difference between the reasonings of the personage before us and his ...
... circumstances and situations ,. and not to receive it implicitly , and without the proper limits and qualifications . Per- haps , indeed , there is not a more striking difference between the reasonings of the personage before us and his ...
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... circumstances in which it might be necessary to have re- course to the military power , and to in- quire whether that necessity , in the case of the riots , was not owing to the negligence of the magistracy . Burke voted for his motions ...
... circumstances in which it might be necessary to have re- course to the military power , and to in- quire whether that necessity , in the case of the riots , was not owing to the negligence of the magistracy . Burke voted for his motions ...
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Página 333 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, — in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Página 310 - In this sense the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights. But as the liberties and the restrictions vary with times and circumstances, and admit of infinite modifications, they cannot be settled upon any abstract rule ; and nothing is so foolish as to discuss them upon that principle.
Página 306 - Far am I from denying in theory, full as far is my heart from withholding in practice, (if I were of power to give or to withhold,) the real rights of men. In denying their false claims of right, I do not mean to injure those which are real, and are such as their pretended rights would totally destroy.
Página 366 - Those who quit their proper character, to assume •what does not belong to them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave, and of the character rthey assume.
Página 307 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. It is an institution of beneficence ; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule.
Página 86 - ... to serve his country, or in the field to defend it. But in all well-wrought compositions some particulars stand out more eminently than the rest, and the things which will carry his name to posterity are his two bills — I mean that for a limitation of the claims of the Crown upon landed estates, and this- for the relief of the Roman Catholics.
Página 309 - Government is not made in virtue of natural rights, which may and do exist in total independence of it; and exist in much greater clearness, and in a much greater degree of abstract perfection : but their abstract perfection is their practical defect.
Página 324 - The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. It is not a single act or a single event which determines it. Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.
Página 260 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was on very many accounts one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the great masters of the renowned ages.
Página 140 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit: For a patriot, too cool; for a drudge, disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.