The Works of ... Edmund Burke, Volume 8F. & C. Rivington, 1803 |
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Page 16
... direct the abilities of the country for its fervice , and to place them in the beft light to improve their age , or to adorn it . This confcience I have . I have never fuppreffed any 1 any man ; never checked him for a moment 16 A LETTER ...
... direct the abilities of the country for its fervice , and to place them in the beft light to improve their age , or to adorn it . This confcience I have . I have never fuppreffed any 1 any man ; never checked him for a moment 16 A LETTER ...
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... direct application of a remedy to the grievance complained of . So far as that is re- moved , all is fure . It stops there ; and if it fails , the substance which underwent the operation , at the very worst , is but where it was . All ...
... direct application of a remedy to the grievance complained of . So far as that is re- moved , all is fure . It stops there ; and if it fails , the substance which underwent the operation , at the very worst , is but where it was . All ...
Page 85
... direct confeffion of our inferiority to France , and whilft many , very many , were ready to act upon a fenfe of that inferiority , a few months effected a total change in our variable minds . We emerged V G 3 from from the gulph of ...
... direct confeffion of our inferiority to France , and whilft many , very many , were ready to act upon a fenfe of that inferiority , a few months effected a total change in our variable minds . We emerged V G 3 from from the gulph of ...
Page 107
... direct perfidy ; they are fo conciliatory in their language as to hint that this perfidious character is not new in our proceedings . However , notwithstanding this our habitual per- fidy , they will offer peace " on conditions as mo ...
... direct perfidy ; they are fo conciliatory in their language as to hint that this perfidious character is not new in our proceedings . However , notwithstanding this our habitual per- fidy , they will offer peace " on conditions as mo ...
Page 117
... direct avowal of their defpotism and ambition . We know that their declared refo- lution had been to furrender no object belonging to France previous to the war . They had refolved , that the republick was entire , and must remain fo ...
... direct avowal of their defpotism and ambition . We know that their declared refo- lution had been to furrender no object belonging to France previous to the war . They had refolved , that the republick was entire , and must remain fo ...
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Page 50 - ... rights; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order, for every kind and every quality of property and of dignity...
Page 49 - British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers, as long as this awful structure shall oversee and guard the subjected land — so long the mounds and dykes of the low, fat, Bedford level* will have nothing to fear from all the pickaxes of all the levellers of France.
Page 35 - he lies floating many a rood' he is still a creature. His ribs, his fins, his whalebone, his blubber, the very spiracles through which he spouts a torrent of brine against his origin, and covers me all over with the spray, everything of him and about him is from the throne.
Page 48 - ... who take up, even puny arms, to defend an order of things, which, like the sun of heaven, shines alike on the useful and the worthless.
Page 165 - The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity .. the rest is crime.
Page 40 - The merit of the origin of his Grace's fortune was in being a favourite and chief adviser to a prince, who left no liberty to their native country. My endeavour was to obtain liberty for the municipal country in which I was born, and for all descriptions and denominations in it. Mine was to support with unrelaxing vigilance every right, every privilege, every franchise, in this my adopted, my dearer, and more comprehensive country...
Page 43 - Russell are entitled to the favour of the Crown? Why should he imagine that no king of England has been capable of judging of merit but King Henry the Eighth? Indeed he will pardon me; he is a little mistaken; all virtue did not end in the first Earl of Bedford. All discernment did not lose its vision when his Creator closed his eyes. Let him remit his rigour on the disproportion between merit and reward in others, and they will make no inquiry into the origin of his fortune. They...
Page 27 - Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool. As little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts by imposing on the understandings, of the people. At every step of my progress in life, (for in every step was I traversed and opposed,) and at every turnpike I met, I was...
Page 368 - Father of all blessings — it is tempered with many alleviations, many comforts. Every attempt to fly from it, and to refuse the very terms of our existence, becomes much more truly a curse, and heavier pains and penalties fall upon those who would elude the tasks which are put upon them by the great Master...
Page 47 - But we are all of us made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink from pain, and poverty, and disease. It is an instinct ; and under the direction of reason, instinct is always in the right.