BurkeMacmillan, 1879 - 216 páginas |
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Página 84
... afterwards , it is the educa- tion I had there that has made me so . His master's skill as a teacher did not impress him more than the example which was every day set before him , of uprightness and simplicity of heart . Thirty years ...
... afterwards , it is the educa- tion I had there that has made me so . His master's skill as a teacher did not impress him more than the example which was every day set before him , of uprightness and simplicity of heart . Thirty years ...
Página 88
... afterwards showed in some important transactions , we might infer that he did more to qualify himself for practice than merely dine in the hall of his Inn . For law , alike as a profession and an in- strument of mental discipline , he ...
... afterwards showed in some important transactions , we might infer that he did more to qualify himself for practice than merely dine in the hall of his Inn . For law , alike as a profession and an in- strument of mental discipline , he ...
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... afterwards conformed to the religion of her husband , it was no insignificant coincidence that in two of the dearest relations of his life the atmo- sphere of Catholicism was thus poured round the great preacher of the crusade against ...
... afterwards conformed to the religion of her husband , it was no insignificant coincidence that in two of the dearest relations of his life the atmo- sphere of Catholicism was thus poured round the great preacher of the crusade against ...
Página 93
... afterwards , Boswell asked Johnson whether an imprudent publication by a certain friend of his at an early period of his life , would be likely to hurt him ? " No , sir , " replied the sage ; " not much ; it might per- haps be mentioned ...
... afterwards , Boswell asked Johnson whether an imprudent publication by a certain friend of his at an early period of his life , would be likely to hurt him ? " No , sir , " replied the sage ; " not much ; it might per- haps be mentioned ...
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... afterwards made so famous . Its influence on Lessing and on Kant was such as to justify the German historian of the literature of the century , in bestowing on it the coveted epithet of epoch - making . The book is full of crudities ...
... afterwards made so famous . Its influence on Lessing and on Kant was such as to justify the German historian of the literature of the century , in bestowing on it the coveted epithet of epoch - making . The book is full of crudities ...
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Página 199 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Página 66 - Animated with all the avarice of age and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in one after another, wave after wave, and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting.
Página 66 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.
Página 66 - Here the manufacturer and husbandman will bless the just and punctual hand that in India has torn the cloth from the loom, or wrested the scanty portion of rice and salt from the peasant of Bengal, or wrung from him the very opium in which he forgot his oppressions and his oppressor.
Página 66 - But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience, these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our Constitution.
Página 177 - I have told you candidly my sentiments. I think they are not likely to alter yours. I do not know that they ought. You are young; you cannot guide, but must follow the fortune of your country. But hereafter they may be of some use to you, in some future form which your commonwealth may take. In the present it can hardly remain ; but before its final settlement it may be obliged to pass, as one of our poets says, " through great varieties of untried being," and in all its transmigrations to be purified...
Página 66 - My worthy colleague says his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgement, and not of inclination; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion?
Página 110 - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies : that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand...
Página 66 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Página 165 - 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 ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...