The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His WorksN.H. Whitaker, 1828 - 160 páginas |
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... human feeling , as they had before to moral obligation ; until , at length , no one original impression remains upon their minds : every principle is oblit- erated ; every sentiment effaced . In the mean time , that power , which all ...
... human feeling , as they had before to moral obligation ; until , at length , no one original impression remains upon their minds : every principle is oblit- erated ; every sentiment effaced . In the mean time , that power , which all ...
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... human mind , have been taught to look on religious opinions as the only cause of enthusiastic zeal , and sectarian propagation . But there is no doctrine whatever , on which men can warm , that is not capable of the very same effect ...
... human mind , have been taught to look on religious opinions as the only cause of enthusiastic zeal , and sectarian propagation . But there is no doctrine whatever , on which men can warm , that is not capable of the very same effect ...
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... human wisdom can do , is to provide that the change shall proceed by insensible degrees . This has all the benefits which may be in change , without any of the inconveniences of mu- tation . CHARACTERS OF MEN . It is in the relaxation ...
... human wisdom can do , is to provide that the change shall proceed by insensible degrees . This has all the benefits which may be in change , without any of the inconveniences of mu- tation . CHARACTERS OF MEN . It is in the relaxation ...
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... human society cannot subsist : that it was not his particular government , but civil order itself , which as a judge he wish- ed him to support . Cromwell knew how to separate the institutions expedient to his usurpation from the ...
... human society cannot subsist : that it was not his particular government , but civil order itself , which as a judge he wish- ed him to support . Cromwell knew how to separate the institutions expedient to his usurpation from the ...
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... human wisdom can foresee , and no human power can prevent . They ос- cur at uncertain periods , but at periods which are not commonly far asunder . Governments of all kinds are administered only by men ; and great mistakes , tending to ...
... human wisdom can foresee , and no human power can prevent . They ос- cur at uncertain periods , but at periods which are not commonly far asunder . Governments of all kinds are administered only by men ; and great mistakes , tending to ...
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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.