The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His WorksN.H. Whitaker, 1828 - 160 páginas |
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... in so much uncertainty . IRELAND IN 1779 . It has been said , and it is the second charge , that , in the questions of the Irish trade , I did not consult the interests of my , constituents , or , to speak out strongly , 66 BURKE .
... in so much uncertainty . IRELAND IN 1779 . It has been said , and it is the second charge , that , in the questions of the Irish trade , I did not consult the interests of my , constituents , or , to speak out strongly , 66 BURKE .
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... Ireland , than as an English member of parliament . I certainly have very warm good wishes for the place of my birth . But the sphere of my duties is my true country . It was as a man attached to your interests , and zealous for the ...
... Ireland , than as an English member of parliament . I certainly have very warm good wishes for the place of my birth . But the sphere of my duties is my true country . It was as a man attached to your interests , and zealous for the ...
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... Ireland was instantly in a flame . Threatened by foreigners , and , as they thought , insulted by England , they resolved at once to resist the power of France , and to cast off yours . As for us , we were neither able to protect nor to ...
... Ireland was instantly in a flame . Threatened by foreigners , and , as they thought , insulted by England , they resolved at once to resist the power of France , and to cast off yours . As for us , we were neither able to protect nor to ...
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... Ireland , frightened out of it by the menaces of England , was now frightened back again , and made an universal surren- der of all that had been thought the pecu- liar , reserved , uncommunicable rights of England ; the exclusive ...
... Ireland , frightened out of it by the menaces of England , was now frightened back again , and made an universal surren- der of all that had been thought the pecu- liar , reserved , uncommunicable rights of England ; the exclusive ...
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... Ireland for the other . What then ? What obligation lay on me to be popular ? I was bound to serve both kingdoms . To be pleased with my service was their affair , not mine . I was an Irishman in the Irish business , just as much as I ...
... Ireland for the other . What then ? What obligation lay on me to be popular ? I was bound to serve both kingdoms . To be pleased with my service was their affair , not mine . I was an Irishman in the Irish business , just as much as I ...
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Página 46 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 87 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Página 137 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should be frequently thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Página 92 - ... and paid it with usury, by enlarging their ideas, and by furnishing their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Página 90 - ... laws are to be supported only by their own terrors, and by the concern which each individual may find in them, from his own private speculations, or can spare to them from his own private interests. In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
Página 112 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest, upon some particular principle, in which they are all agreed.
Página 7 - Suppose, Sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing the many virtues which made him one of the most amiable, as he is one of the most fortunate, men of his age, had opened to him in vision, that when in the fourth generation the third prince of the House of Brunswick had sat twelve years on the throne...
Página 90 - Nothing is left which engages the affections on the part of the commonwealth. On the principles of this mechanic philosophy, our institutions can never he imbodied, if I may use the expression, in persons, so as to create in us love, veneration, admiration, or attachment. But that sort of reason which banishes the affections is incapable of filling their place.
Página 90 - These public affections, combined with manners, are required sometimes as supplements, sometimes as correctives, always as aids to law. The precept given by a wise man, as well as a great critic, for the construction of...
Página 80 - Political arrangement, as it is a work for social ends, is to be only wrought by social means. There mind must conspire with mind. Time is required to produce that union of minds which alone can produce all the good we aim at. Our patience will achieve more than our force.