The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellaniesGeorge Bell & sons, 1889 - Great Britain |
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... endeavour which the art and policy of mankind has used from the beginning of the world to this day , in order to alleviate or cure them , has only served to introduce new mischiefs , or to aggravate and inflame the old . Besides this ...
... endeavour which the art and policy of mankind has used from the beginning of the world to this day , in order to alleviate or cure them , has only served to introduce new mischiefs , or to aggravate and inflame the old . Besides this ...
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... endeavour to establish . This manner of proceeding I should think very improper . The task would be infinite , if we could establish no princi- ple until we had previously unravelled the complex texture of every image or description to ...
... endeavour to establish . This manner of proceeding I should think very improper . The task would be infinite , if we could establish no princi- ple until we had previously unravelled the complex texture of every image or description to ...
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... endeavour to shake off as soon as possible . The Odyssey of Homer , which abounds with so many natural and affecting images , has none more striking than those which Menelaus raises of the calamitous fate of his friends , and his own ...
... endeavour to shake off as soon as possible . The Odyssey of Homer , which abounds with so many natural and affecting images , has none more striking than those which Menelaus raises of the calamitous fate of his friends , and his own ...
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... endeavour to investigate hereafter . SECT . VIII . - OF THE PASSIONS WHICH BELONG TO SOCIETY . THE other head under which I class our passions , is that of society , which may be divided into two sorts . 1. The so- ciety of the sexes ...
... endeavour to investigate hereafter . SECT . VIII . - OF THE PASSIONS WHICH BELONG TO SOCIETY . THE other head under which I class our passions , is that of society , which may be divided into two sorts . 1. The so- ciety of the sexes ...
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... endeavour to show after what manner this power operated , without attempting to show why it operated in this manner : or if I were to explain the effects of bodies striking one another by the common laws of percussion , I should not ...
... endeavour to show after what manner this power operated , without attempting to show why it operated in this manner : or if I were to explain the effects of bodies striking one another by the common laws of percussion , I should not ...
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Page 74 - Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
Page 476 - State, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. 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.
Page 92 - Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 508 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Page 467 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
Page 454 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is (let me say) of no mean force in the government of mankind.
Page 508 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood, that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another ; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation ; the cement is gone ; the cohesion is loosened ; and every thing hastens to decay and dissolution.
Page 468 - Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states, that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Page 507 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.