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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Página 106
... ment were to be hardened into an infenfibility to pride as well as to duty . Thofe high and haughty sentiments , which are the great fupport of independence , were to be let down gradually . Point of honour and precedence were no more ...
... ment were to be hardened into an infenfibility to pride as well as to duty . Thofe high and haughty sentiments , which are the great fupport of independence , were to be let down gradually . Point of honour and precedence were no more ...
Página 108
... ment ; vaft property ; obligations of favors given and received ; connexion of office ; ties of blood , of alliance , of friendship ( things at that time fuppofed of fome force ) ; the name of Whig , dear to the majority of the people ...
... ment ; vaft property ; obligations of favors given and received ; connexion of office ; ties of blood , of alliance , of friendship ( things at that time fuppofed of fome force ) ; the name of Whig , dear to the majority of the people ...
Página 115
... ment , on the temper of the people , and on the personal happiness of the fovereign , Mr. BURKE is led to confider its operation upon parliament alfo . In fpeaking of this body , he confines himself chiefly to the house of commons ...
... ment , on the temper of the people , and on the personal happiness of the fovereign , Mr. BURKE is led to confider its operation upon parliament alfo . In fpeaking of this body , he confines himself chiefly to the house of commons ...
Página 119
... ment and pillory * ; and many other delinquents . Even fo lately as the beginning of his prefent majefty's reign , before the minds When the earl of BUTE came into office , and had the distribution of the royal favors , he got SHEBBEARE ...
... ment and pillory * ; and many other delinquents . Even fo lately as the beginning of his prefent majefty's reign , before the minds When the earl of BUTE came into office , and had the distribution of the royal favors , he got SHEBBEARE ...
Página 128
... ment and actual state of the company's concerns --- to present to the house a comprehenfive view of the existence and extent of the evils , and thereby to enable them in their deliberate wisdom to apply an effectual remedy . This ...
... ment and actual state of the company's concerns --- to present to the house a comprehenfive view of the existence and extent of the evils , and thereby to enable them in their deliberate wisdom to apply an effectual remedy . This ...
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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.