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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... MOST DISTINGUISHED CHARACTERS IN EUROPE . BY CHARLES M'CORMICK , LL . B. THE SECOND EDITION . LONDON : PRINTED FOR LEE AND HURST , NO . 32 , PATERNOSTER - ROW , 1798 BOD SR 2 - Jul.1870 OXFORD A SKETCH of the MEMOIRS.
... MOST DISTINGUISHED CHARACTERS IN EUROPE . BY CHARLES M'CORMICK , LL . B. THE SECOND EDITION . LONDON : PRINTED FOR LEE AND HURST , NO . 32 , PATERNOSTER - ROW , 1798 BOD SR 2 - Jul.1870 OXFORD A SKETCH of the MEMOIRS.
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... most eventful period of our history . It would have been easy to give the work a higher finishing in a little more time ; but the praise of masterly execution appeared of little consequence , when compared with the advantages which the ...
... most eventful period of our history . It would have been easy to give the work a higher finishing in a little more time ; but the praise of masterly execution appeared of little consequence , when compared with the advantages which the ...
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... most perfuafive eloquence : yet they do not in general believe that this proceeds from any real change in his original principles , --- but from an affectation of liberality towards them , while he wished to direct the whole tide of ...
... most perfuafive eloquence : yet they do not in general believe that this proceeds from any real change in his original principles , --- but from an affectation of liberality towards them , while he wished to direct the whole tide of ...
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... most fimple , fo it is infinitely the most general . Scarce any part of the world is exempted from its power : and in thofe few places where men enjoy what they call liberty , it is continually in a tottering fituation , and makes ...
... most fimple , fo it is infinitely the most general . Scarce any part of the world is exempted from its power : and in thofe few places where men enjoy what they call liberty , it is continually in a tottering fituation , and makes ...
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... most diforderly anarchy . " name , The abuses of aristocracy , and of democracy , are described with equal force . The former is faid to differ from a defpotism but in the people being , to all intents and purposes , as much flaves ...
... most diforderly anarchy . " name , The abuses of aristocracy , and of democracy , are described with equal force . The former is faid to differ from a defpotism but in the people being , to all intents and purposes , as much flaves ...
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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.