The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volumen 1J. C. Nimmo, 1887 |
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... give an authen- tic edition . The " Thoughts and Details on Scarcity " were originally presented in the form of a memorial to Mr. Pitt . The author proposed afterwards to recast the same matter in a new shape . He even adver- tised the ...
... give an authen- tic edition . The " Thoughts and Details on Scarcity " were originally presented in the form of a memorial to Mr. Pitt . The author proposed afterwards to recast the same matter in a new shape . He even adver- tised the ...
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... give it the fullest and speediest effect . In truth , the answer , which is full of spirit and vivacity , was written the latter end of the same year , but was laid aside when the question assumed a more serious aspect , from the ...
... give it the fullest and speediest effect . In truth , the answer , which is full of spirit and vivacity , was written the latter end of the same year , but was laid aside when the question assumed a more serious aspect , from the ...
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... gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . " A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine , that war was the state of nature ; and truly , if a man judged of the ...
... gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . " A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine , that war was the state of nature ; and truly , if a man judged of the ...
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... gives one man the power over many , and arms his naturally impotent and feeble rage with the hands of millions , who know no com- mon principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who ...
... gives one man the power over many , and arms his naturally impotent and feeble rage with the hands of millions , who know no com- mon principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who ...
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... give more than hints to one of your lordship's erudition . You will recollect his uninterrupted series of success . You will run over his battles . You will call to mind the carnage which was made . You will give a glance at the whole ...
... give more than hints to one of your lordship's erudition . You will recollect his uninterrupted series of success . You will run over his battles . You will call to mind the carnage which was made . You will give a glance at the whole ...
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Página 201 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Página 153 - His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Página 128 - Of the Passion Caused by the Sublime The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is Astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror.
Página 435 - To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind ; indeed the necessary effects of the ignorance and levity of the vulgar.
Página 135 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up : It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Página 528 - 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 133 - Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 79 - I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty or those faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or which form a judgment of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts.
Página 133 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 531 - Men thinking freely will, in particular instances, think differently. But still, as the greater Part of the measures which arise in the course of public business are related to, or dependent on, some great leading general principles in Government, a man must be peculiarly unfortunate in the choice of his political company if he does not agree with them at least nine times in ten.