The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 8F & C. Rivington, 1803 |
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... those regulations ? I knew that fuch a fund exifted , and that penfions had been always granted on it , before his grace was born . This fund was full in my eye . It was full in the eyes of those who worked with me . It was left on ...
... those regulations ? I knew that fuch a fund exifted , and that penfions had been always granted on it , before his grace was born . This fund was full in my eye . It was full in the eyes of those who worked with me . It was left on ...
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... those who belonged to me , more than the duke of Bedford's ideas of fervice are of power to estimate . But in truth , these fer- vices I am called to account for , are not those on which I value myself the most . If I were to call for a ...
... those who belonged to me , more than the duke of Bedford's ideas of fervice are of power to estimate . But in truth , these fer- vices I am called to account for , are not those on which I value myself the most . If I were to call for a ...
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... Those pensions were within my principles . I affert it , those gentle- men deferved their penfions , their titles - all they had ; and more had they had , I should have been but pleased the more . They were men of talents ; they were ...
... Those pensions were within my principles . I affert it , those gentle- men deferved their penfions , their titles - all they had ; and more had they had , I should have been but pleased the more . They were men of talents ; they were ...
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... those , who were no friends of mine or of his , against the rude at- tacks of those who were at that time friends to the grantees , and their own zealous partifans . I have never heard the earl of Lauderdale complain of thefe penfions ...
... those , who were no friends of mine or of his , against the rude at- tacks of those who were at that time friends to the grantees , and their own zealous partifans . I have never heard the earl of Lauderdale complain of thefe penfions ...
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... those old prejudices which buoy up the ponderous mafs of his nobility , wealth , and titles . I have omitted no exertion to prevent him and them from finking to that level , to which the meretricious French faction , his grace at least ...
... those old prejudices which buoy up the ponderous mafs of his nobility , wealth , and titles . I have omitted no exertion to prevent him and them from finking to that level , to which the meretricious French faction , his grace at least ...
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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...