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" In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping... "
The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflections - Page 47
1821
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Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy

Marilyn Butler - 1984 - 280 pages
...of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable, and cherishing...state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. . . . France, by the perfidy of her leaders, has utterly disgraced the tone of lenient council in the...
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Architectural Principles in the Age of Historicism

Robert Jan van Pelt, Robert Jan Pelt, Carroll William Westfall - 1991 - 438 pages
...of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable, and cherishing...charities, our state. our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.8 For a more theoretical assessment and justification of these and similar sentiments I refer...
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Political Order and the Plural Structure of Society

James W. Skillen, Rockne M. McCarthy - 1991 - 448 pages
...Isles? As part of their inheritance the British had adopted "our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections, keeping inseparable and cherishing...mutually reflected charities our state, our hearths, our sepulchers, and our altars."" Burke wants to hold onto all those institutions not simply to preserve...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing...state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. EDMUND BURKE (1 729-97), Irish philosopher, statesman. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1 790)....
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Romantic Poetry: Recent Revisionary Criticism

Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - 1993 - 520 pages
...of our country with our dearest domestic ties, adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections, keeping inseparable and cherishing...their combined and mutually reflected charities, our states, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. (Butler 40) In Coleridge's 1795 Introductory Address,...
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The Insistence of History: Revolution in Burke, Wordworth, Keats, and Baudelaire

Geraldine Friedman - 1996 - 300 pages
...of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable, and cherishing...state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars" (R, p. 120). 44 What is striking about this enjoyment is that it derives from the domestic "private...
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Monster theory [electronic resource]: reading culture

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen - 1996 - 331 pages
...of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable, and cherishing...charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.18 Moving quickly by way of "philosophic analogy" from the constitutional state to bodily constitution,...
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Wordsworth’s Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Early Romantic ...

Thomas Pfau - 1997 - 478 pages
...of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable, and cherishing...state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars" (RF, 12..0). Conceived as the antidote to the antagonisms of political and class interests in the era...
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Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume ...

Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - 476 pages
...of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable, and cherishing...charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.31 28 An example of the conflation of "nature" with inherited conventions. -'' Pride in one's...
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Ruskin's Culture Wars: Fors Clavigera and the Crisis of Victorian Liberalism

Judith Stoddart - 1998 - 220 pages
...frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing...charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our actions."4'' Burke's image was meant to provide more than a sentimental diversion from the revolutionary...
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