Memoirs of the right honourable Edmund Burke; or, An impartial review of his private life, his public conduct, his speeches in parliament, and the different productions of his penLee and Hurst, 1798 - 378 páginas |
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... shall now resume the thread of our biographical narrative . After a regular course of study under the good quaker , the pride of the fchool , for fo young EDMUND was called , was re- moved at the age of fixteen to Trinity College ...
... shall now resume the thread of our biographical narrative . After a regular course of study under the good quaker , the pride of the fchool , for fo young EDMUND was called , was re- moved at the age of fixteen to Trinity College ...
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... shall we judge of countries more ex-- tended , and which have waged wars of far greater importance and duration ? Instances of this fort , he adds , compose the uniform of history . But there have been periods when no less than uni ...
... shall we judge of countries more ex-- tended , and which have waged wars of far greater importance and duration ? Instances of this fort , he adds , compose the uniform of history . But there have been periods when no less than uni ...
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... shall find every one of them to be a tiffue of rashness , folly , ingratitude , injuftice , tumult , violence , and tyranny . In reply to a very prevailing opinion , that the errors of the feveral fimple modes of government may be ...
... shall find every one of them to be a tiffue of rashness , folly , ingratitude , injuftice , tumult , violence , and tyranny . In reply to a very prevailing opinion , that the errors of the feveral fimple modes of government may be ...
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... shall fully illustrate , when we come to give an account of the inftitution of the Royal Academy . We shall then tranfplant the laurel to the proper tomb ; and hope that neither Mr. COURTENAY , Lord CAR- LISLE , nor Mr. MALONE , will be ...
... shall fully illustrate , when we come to give an account of the inftitution of the Royal Academy . We shall then tranfplant the laurel to the proper tomb ; and hope that neither Mr. COURTENAY , Lord CAR- LISLE , nor Mr. MALONE , will be ...
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... shall have further occafion to refer to this fpeech , which abounds in effufions of genius and fancy . What we have now quoted will make the reader well enough acquainted with Mr , BURKE'S fentiments on the repeal of the ftamp - act ...
... shall have further occafion to refer to this fpeech , which abounds in effufions of genius and fancy . What we have now quoted will make the reader well enough acquainted with Mr , BURKE'S fentiments on the repeal of the ftamp - act ...
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Página 38 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Página 220 - But, my lords, who is the man, that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared to authorize and associate to our arms the tomahawk and scalping-knife of the savage; to call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman inhabitant of the woods...
Página 141 - ... some way related to the business that was to be done within it. If he was ambitious, I will say this for him, his ambition was of a noble and generous strain. It was to raise himself not by...
Página 38 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Página 142 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Página 98 - ... them in a superior manner did not always preserve, when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape.
Página 98 - 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 263 - But he has put to hazard his ease, his security, his interest, his power, even his darling popularity, for the benefit of a people whom he has never seen.
Página 38 - 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.
Página 104 - The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State, it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake.