The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volumen 1Henry G. Bohn, 1857 - 512 páginas |
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... greater if he acts upon the offensive , by the impetuosity that always accompanies an attack , and the unfortunate propensity which mankind have to the finding and exaggerating faults . The editor is satisfied that a mind , which has no ...
... greater if he acts upon the offensive , by the impetuosity that always accompanies an attack , and the unfortunate propensity which mankind have to the finding and exaggerating faults . The editor is satisfied that a mind , which has no ...
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... greater ; and we behold a war continued with much fury , and with various success . This ends in the retreat of the queen , with scarce a third of the troops em- ployed in the expedition ; an expedition which , at this rate , must have ...
... greater ; and we behold a war continued with much fury , and with various success . This ends in the retreat of the queen , with scarce a third of the troops em- ployed in the expedition ; an expedition which , at this rate , must have ...
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... greater proportion of rage and fury in their composi- tion than we have . But with respect to you , ye legislators , ye civilizers of mankind ! ye Orpheuses , Moseses , Minoses , Solons , Theseuses , Lycurguses , Numas ! with respect to ...
... greater proportion of rage and fury in their composi- tion than we have . But with respect to you , ye legislators , ye civilizers of mankind ! ye Orpheuses , Moseses , Minoses , Solons , Theseuses , Lycurguses , Numas ! with respect to ...
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... greater than if they were animated by revenge for their own proper wrongs . It is no less worth observing , that this artificial division of mankind into separate societies , is a perpetual source in itself of hatred and dissension ...
... greater than if they were animated by revenge for their own proper wrongs . It is no less worth observing , that this artificial division of mankind into separate societies , is a perpetual source in itself of hatred and dissension ...
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... greater and greater strides to that gulf of despotism , which at last swallows up every spe- cies of government . The manner of ruling being directed merely by the will of the weakest , and generally the worst , man in the society ...
... greater and greater strides to that gulf of despotism , which at last swallows up every spe- cies of government . The manner of ruling being directed merely by the will of the weakest , and generally the worst , man in the society ...
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Página 67 - 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...
Página 363 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
Página 331 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful, and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the Congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Página 259 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Página 338 - ... direct and immediate power of the colonies to resist our violence as very formidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. But when I consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us, it seems to my poor understanding a little preposterous to make them unserviceable in order to keep them obedient. It is, in truth, nothing more than the old and, as I thought, exploded problem of tyranny, which proposes to beggar its subjects into submission.
Página 67 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwelling. He scorneth the multitude of the city, Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing.
Página 341 - A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
Página 67 - 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. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that object which employs it.
Página 326 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis'e Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Página 67 - 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.