Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke, Bind 21804 |
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Side 22
... admire them at a safe and respectful distance . There never was a mean and abject mind that did not admire an intrepid and dexterous villain . In the bottom of their hearts they believe such hardy miscreants to be the only men qualified ...
... admire them at a safe and respectful distance . There never was a mean and abject mind that did not admire an intrepid and dexterous villain . In the bottom of their hearts they believe such hardy miscreants to be the only men qualified ...
Side 97
... admire will instantly resemble . It is indeed an inexhaustible repertory of one kind of examples . **** We are not to delude ourselves . No man can be connected with a party , which professes publicly to admire , or may be justly ...
... admire will instantly resemble . It is indeed an inexhaustible repertory of one kind of examples . **** We are not to delude ourselves . No man can be connected with a party , which professes publicly to admire , or may be justly ...
Side 110
... admiration , which a contemplation of the works of infinite wisdom alone can afford to a rational mind ; whilst , referring to him whatever we find of right or good or fair in our- selves , discovering his strength and wisdom even in ...
... admiration , which a contemplation of the works of infinite wisdom alone can afford to a rational mind ; whilst , referring to him whatever we find of right or good or fair in our- selves , discovering his strength and wisdom even in ...
Side 144
... admiration , from any eminent qualities he possessed , as there was to excite an interest , from any that were amiable . A person , not only of no real civil or literary talents , but of no specious appearance of either ; and in his ...
... admiration , from any eminent qualities he possessed , as there was to excite an interest , from any that were amiable . A person , not only of no real civil or literary talents , but of no specious appearance of either ; and in his ...
Side 159
... admire , and to hold out to the ad- miration of mankind the constitution of England ! And shall we Englishmen revoke to such a suit ? LORD NORTH . He was a man of admirable parts 159 MONTESQUIEU........................
... admire , and to hold out to the ad- miration of mankind the constitution of England ! And shall we Englishmen revoke to such a suit ? LORD NORTH . He was a man of admirable parts 159 MONTESQUIEU........................
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Side 91 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Side 105 - The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes ; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. Th6 rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned. The rights of men in governments are their advantages ; and these are often in balances between differences of good ; in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes, between evil and evil.
Side 80 - The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science; because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate...
Side 41 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle...
Side 75 - It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigour and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth ; so to be patriots, as not to forget we are gentlemen.
Side 101 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.
Side 26 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.
Side 103 - ... inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection. This can only be done by a power out of themselves ; and not, in the exercise of its function, subject to that will and to those passions which it is its office to bridle and sub102 due. In this sense the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.
Side 139 - 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...