Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790Risingtens, 1868 |
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Side 55
... true greatness , at the full ; and it will do so , as long as it can keep the breakers of law in India from becoming the makers of law for England . The power , however , of the House of Commons , when least diminished , is as a drop of ...
... true greatness , at the full ; and it will do so , as long as it can keep the breakers of law in India from becoming the makers of law for England . The power , however , of the House of Commons , when least diminished , is as a drop of ...
Side 62
... True ; if the constitution of a kingdom be a problem of arithmetic . This sort of dis- course does well enough with the lamp - post for its second : to men who may reason calmly , it is ridiculous . The will of the many , and their ...
... True ; if the constitution of a kingdom be a problem of arithmetic . This sort of dis- course does well enough with the lamp - post for its second : to men who may reason calmly , it is ridiculous . The will of the many , and their ...
Side 74
... true , they are morally and politically false . The 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 ...
... true , they are morally and politically false . The 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 ...
Side 91
... true as to states : -Non satis est pulchra esse poemata , dulcia sunto . There ought to be a system of manners in every nation , which a well - formed mind would be disposed to relish . To make us love our country , our country ought to ...
... true as to states : -Non satis est pulchra esse poemata , dulcia sunto . There ought to be a system of manners in every nation , which a well - formed mind would be disposed to relish . To make us love our country , our country ought to ...
Side 97
... true , much more ought to have been done , but done , in my opinion , in another manner . The punishment of real tyrants is a noble and awful act of justice ; and it has with truth been said to be consolatory to the human mind . But if ...
... true , much more ought to have been done , but done , in my opinion , in another manner . The punishment of real tyrants is a noble and awful act of justice ; and it has with truth been said to be consolatory to the human mind . But if ...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain ... Burke Ingen forhåndsvisning - 1790 |
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Side 89 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Side 89 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honourj and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Side 42 - You. will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Side 35 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Side 60 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Side 42 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission; without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
Side 106 - We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is by his constitution a religious animal, that atheism is against not only our reason but our instincts, and that it cannot prevail long.
Side 70 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. It is an institution of beneficence; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule.
Side 99 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; tha£ of course, they are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Side 18 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.