The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 8F & C. Rivington, 1803 |
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... last century , it had its origin . Great and learned men thought my ftudies were not wholly thrown away , and deigned to communicate with me now and then on fome particulars of their im- mortal works . Something of these studies may ...
... last century , it had its origin . Great and learned men thought my ftudies were not wholly thrown away , and deigned to communicate with me now and then on fome particulars of their im- mortal works . Something of these studies may ...
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... last to call in question . I have fupported with very great zeal , and I am told with fome degree of fuc- cefs , thofe opinions , or if his grace likes another expreffion better , those old prejudices which buoy up the ponderous mafs of ...
... last to call in question . I have fupported with very great zeal , and I am told with fome degree of fuc- cefs , thofe opinions , or if his grace likes another expreffion better , those old prejudices which buoy up the ponderous mafs of ...
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... last , he crops the flow'ry food , And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood . No man lives too long , who lives to do with fpirit , and fuffer with refignation , what Providence pleases to command or inflict : but indeed they ...
... last , he crops the flow'ry food , And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood . No man lives too long , who lives to do with fpirit , and fuffer with refignation , what Providence pleases to command or inflict : but indeed they ...
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... last beat . It was after his trial at Portsmouth that he gave me this picture . With what zeal and anxious affection I attended him through that his agony of glory , what part my fon in the early flush and en- thusiasm of his virtue ...
... last beat . It was after his trial at Portsmouth that he gave me this picture . With what zeal and anxious affection I attended him through that his agony of glory , what part my fon in the early flush and en- thusiasm of his virtue ...
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... last seven years . eye I know it is fuppofed , that if good terms of capitulation are not granted , after we have thus fo repeatedly hung out the white flag , the national fpirit will revive with tenfold ardour . This is an experiment ...
... last seven years . eye I know it is fuppofed , that if good terms of capitulation are not granted , after we have thus fo repeatedly hung out the white flag , the national fpirit will revive with tenfold ardour . This is an experiment ...
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Page 47 - I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard season I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world.
Page 47 - The crown has considered me after long service : the crown has paid the Duke of Bedford by advance. He has had a long credit for any service which he may perform hereafter. He is secure, and long may he be secure, in his advance, whether he performs any services or not.
Page 181 - It is with nations as with individuals. Nothing is so strong a tie of amity between nation and nation as correspondence in laws, customs, manners, and habits of life. They have more than the force of treaties in themselves. They are obligations written in the heart.
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 50 - ... rights; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order, for every kind and every quality of property and of dignity; — as long as these endure, so long the Duke of Bedford is safe, and we are all safe together — the high from the blights of envy and the spoliations of rapacity; the low from the iron hand of oppression and the insolent spurn of contempt.
Page 40 - ... 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 48 - His grants are engrafted on the public law of Europe, covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. They are guarded by the sacred...
Page 57 - The geometricians and the chemists bring, the one from the dry bones of their diagrams, and the other from the soot of their furnaces, dispositions that make them worse than indifferent about those feelings and habitudes which are the supports of the moral world.
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 45 - 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 a family: I should have left a son who, in all the points in which personal merit can be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in...