Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke, Volumen 21804 |
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... greatest peril of life and reputation , is a situation full of danger , and destitute of honour . It will be shun- ned equally by every man of prudence , and every man of spirit . MINORITY . THIS minority is numerous enough to make a ...
... greatest peril of life and reputation , is a situation full of danger , and destitute of honour . It will be shun- ned equally by every man of prudence , and every man of spirit . MINORITY . THIS minority is numerous enough to make a ...
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... greatest talents are wholly unserviceable to the public . No man , who is not inflamed by vain glory into enthusiasm , can flatter himself that his single , unsupported , desultory , unsystematic endea- vours are of power to defeat the ...
... greatest talents are wholly unserviceable to the public . No man , who is not inflamed by vain glory into enthusiasm , can flatter himself that his single , unsupported , desultory , unsystematic endea- vours are of power to defeat the ...
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... greatest commonwealths have always commended and promoted such connexions . Idem sentire de republica , was with them a principal ground of friendship and attachment ; nor do I know any other capable of forming firmer , dearer , more ...
... greatest commonwealths have always commended and promoted such connexions . Idem sentire de republica , was with them a principal ground of friendship and attachment ; nor do I know any other capable of forming firmer , dearer , more ...
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... . Thus the disagreement will naturally be rare ; it will be only enough to indulge freedom , without violating concord , or disturbing arrangement . And this is all that ever was required for a character of the greatest 42.
... . Thus the disagreement will naturally be rare ; it will be only enough to indulge freedom , without violating concord , or disturbing arrangement . And this is all that ever was required for a character of the greatest 42.
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Edmund Burke. that ever was required for a character of the greatest uniformity and steadiness in connexion . How men can proceed without any connexion at all , is to me utterly incomprehensible . Of what sort of materials must that man ...
Edmund Burke. that ever was required for a character of the greatest uniformity and steadiness in connexion . How men can proceed without any connexion at all , is to me utterly incomprehensible . Of what sort of materials must that man ...
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Página 91 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Página 105 - The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes ; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. Th6 rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned. The rights of men in governments are their advantages ; and these are often in balances between differences of good ; in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes, between evil and evil.
Página 80 - The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science; because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate...
Página 41 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle...
Página 75 - It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigour and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth ; so to be patriots, as not to forget we are gentlemen.
Página 101 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.
Página 26 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.
Página 103 - ... inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection. This can only be done by a power out of themselves ; and not, in the exercise of its function, subject to that will and to those passions which it is its office to bridle and sub102 due. In this sense the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.
Página 139 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of...