Memoir of the life and character of ... Edmund Burke; with specimens of his poetry and letters1826 |
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... Noble Lord ( Earl Fitzwilliam ) , on the Attacks made upon him ( Mr. Burke ) , and his Pension , in the House of Lords , by the Duke of Bedford , and the Earl of Lauderdale Three Letters on a Regicide Peace ... Fourth Letter on the same ...
... Noble Lord ( Earl Fitzwilliam ) , on the Attacks made upon him ( Mr. Burke ) , and his Pension , in the House of Lords , by the Duke of Bedford , and the Earl of Lauderdale Three Letters on a Regicide Peace ... Fourth Letter on the same ...
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... noble philosopher , caused some stir in the literary circles , though it has been untruly stated by a virulent enemy , in the guise of a biographer , to have fallen still - born from the press . Lord Chesterfield and Bishop Warburton ...
... noble philosopher , caused some stir in the literary circles , though it has been untruly stated by a virulent enemy , in the guise of a biographer , to have fallen still - born from the press . Lord Chesterfield and Bishop Warburton ...
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... noble writer , concentrated and brought be- fore us ; so that an ordinary reader , who , in peru- sing his genuine works merely felt himself dazzled and disappointed - delighted and wearied he could not tell why , is now enabled to form ...
... noble writer , concentrated and brought be- fore us ; so that an ordinary reader , who , in peru- sing his genuine works merely felt himself dazzled and disappointed - delighted and wearied he could not tell why , is now enabled to form ...
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... noble sciences to one of the most trivial controversies of ecclesiasti- cal discipline . Beda did not confine his attention to those superior sciences . He treated of music , and of rhetoric , of grammar , and of the art of versifica ...
... noble sciences to one of the most trivial controversies of ecclesiasti- cal discipline . Beda did not confine his attention to those superior sciences . He treated of music , and of rhetoric , of grammar , and of the art of versifica ...
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... Noble Authors , and a variety of others , were sent for his perusal , and some were no- ticed in the Annual Register , though it may be doubted whether his connection with that work was known . In noticing Johnson's Rasselas , in this ...
... Noble Authors , and a variety of others , were sent for his perusal , and some were no- ticed in the Annual Register , though it may be doubted whether his connection with that work was known . In noticing Johnson's Rasselas , in this ...
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Página 289 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Página 170 - So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless faithful only he ; Among innumerable false unmoved. Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Página 273 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Página 303 - But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance ; it is the dissidence of dissent ; and the protestantism of the protestant religion.
Página 299 - In this character of the Americans a love of freedom is the predominating feature, which marks and distinguishes the whole ; and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Página 109 - ... his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable and the tenor of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.
Página 163 - ... a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers; king's friends and republicans; Whigs and Tories; treacherous friends and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Página 506 - I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights, and liberties he has subverted ; whose properties he has destroyed, whose country he has laid waste and desolate. I impeach him in the name, and by virtue of those eternal laws of justice, which he has violated. I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has cruelly outraged, injured, and oppressed in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation, and condition of life.
Página 307 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your, people miserable ; but whether it is not your interest to make them happy.
Página 306 - Sir, I think you must perceive that I am resolved this day to have nothing at all to do with the question of the right of taxation. Some gentlemen startle, but it is true. I put it totally out of the question. It is less than nothing in my consideration.