The Public and Domestic Life of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke |
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... charges , stated he was a member of the Church of England , and declared his inviolable loyalty to the House of Brunswick . He had been educated at Trinity College , Dublin , and had never been in any way under Jesuit tutorship . There ...
... charges , stated he was a member of the Church of England , and declared his inviolable loyalty to the House of Brunswick . He had been educated at Trinity College , Dublin , and had never been in any way under Jesuit tutorship . There ...
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... charge certain stamp - duties in the colonies and plantations of America had passed ; the colonists were men of a caste and temper not to submit : the storm of discontent had begun , rife with rebellion and redolent of revolution . The ...
... charge certain stamp - duties in the colonies and plantations of America had passed ; the colonists were men of a caste and temper not to submit : the storm of discontent had begun , rife with rebellion and redolent of revolution . The ...
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... charge of his connexion with the secret . First : from his text , Junius is held to be an Irishman , and so was Burke . The style of Junius is Irish in thought and tone , and now and then an expression escapes him which an Englishman ...
... charge of his connexion with the secret . First : from his text , Junius is held to be an Irishman , and so was Burke . The style of Junius is Irish in thought and tone , and now and then an expression escapes him which an Englishman ...
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... charged having undoubtedly done , and been addicted to doing , the same thing before . Burke , it will be remembered ... charge , it would have been next to ruin for any rising politician or statesman to have , by confessing , confronted ...
... charged having undoubtedly done , and been addicted to doing , the same thing before . Burke , it will be remembered ... charge , it would have been next to ruin for any rising politician or statesman to have , by confessing , confronted ...
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... charged , and especially Francis , innocent of a parti- cipation in Junius . To the fact of Burke having himself written the letters of Junius there certainly can be opposed his letter to Charles Townshend , son of the Hon . Thomas ...
... charged , and especially Francis , innocent of a parti- cipation in Junius . To the fact of Burke having himself written the letters of Junius there certainly can be opposed his letter to Charles Townshend , son of the Hon . Thomas ...
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Page 83 - Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 88 - Is it not the same virtue which does everything for us here in England ? Do you imagine then, that it is the land tax act which raises your revenue ? that it is the annual vote in the committee of supply, which gives you your army ? or that it is the mutiny bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline ? No ! surely no ! It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Page 94 - He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Page 311 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 83 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Page 177 - He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Page 252 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Page 84 - If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion ? in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ? and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments...
Page 87 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 280 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.