The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His WorksN.H. Whitaker, 1828 - 160 páginas |
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... conduct in adversity that can clear our reputation . Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar . The pride of no person in a flourishing con- dition is more justly to be dreaded , than that of him who is mean and cringing ...
... conduct in adversity that can clear our reputation . Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar . The pride of no person in a flourishing con- dition is more justly to be dreaded , than that of him who is mean and cringing ...
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... conduct . Not that such impositions are strong enough in them- selves ; but a powerful interest , often con- cealed from those whom it affects , works at the bottom , and secures the operation . Men are thus debauched away from those ...
... conduct . Not that such impositions are strong enough in them- selves ; but a powerful interest , often con- cealed from those whom it affects , works at the bottom , and secures the operation . Men are thus debauched away from those ...
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... conduct , from a sense that you are consid- ered as an instructer of your fellow - citizens in their highest concerns , and that you act as a reconciler between God and man - to be employed as an administrator of law and justice , and ...
... conduct , from a sense that you are consid- ered as an instructer of your fellow - citizens in their highest concerns , and that you act as a reconciler between God and man - to be employed as an administrator of law and justice , and ...
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... conduct , not to ex- ercise our ingenuity ; and , therefore , our opinions about them ought not to be in a state of fluctuation , but steady , sure , and resolved . Amongst these nice , and therefore dan- gerous points of casuistry ...
... conduct , not to ex- ercise our ingenuity ; and , therefore , our opinions about them ought not to be in a state of fluctuation , but steady , sure , and resolved . Amongst these nice , and therefore dan- gerous points of casuistry ...
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... conduct in ministry is , and inconsistent with all just policy , it is still true to itself , and faithful to its own perverted order . Those who are bountiful to crimes will be rigid to merit , and penurious to service . Their penury ...
... conduct in ministry is , and inconsistent with all just policy , it is still true to itself , and faithful to its own perverted order . Those who are bountiful to crimes will be rigid to merit , and penurious to service . Their penury ...
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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.