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... matters are so mixed up and jumbled together in them , with such little re- gard to following the time or tide of events as they flow on , that the reader who attempts to master the narrative finds himself lost as in a labyrinth , until ...
... matters are so mixed up and jumbled together in them , with such little re- gard to following the time or tide of events as they flow on , that the reader who attempts to master the narrative finds himself lost as in a labyrinth , until ...
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... matter he has had to sift and set in order , far more difficulty and toil than he could have anticipated , or than probably the result of his labours may make it be believed . His success has now in some measure been tested , by the ...
... matter he has had to sift and set in order , far more difficulty and toil than he could have anticipated , or than probably the result of his labours may make it be believed . His success has now in some measure been tested , by the ...
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... of conversation . Whether her beauty also enslaved him , his own high morality , and the fact of her being somewhat passée and an invalid , must leave VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 21 a matter of doubt 20 LIFE OF EDMUND BURKE .
... of conversation . Whether her beauty also enslaved him , his own high morality , and the fact of her being somewhat passée and an invalid , must leave VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 21 a matter of doubt 20 LIFE OF EDMUND BURKE .
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Peter Burke. VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 21 a matter of doubt . Their acquaintance was of short duration ; for poor Peg's rapidly declining health forced her soon after into re- tirement , and brought on her death early in 1760. She ...
Peter Burke. VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 21 a matter of doubt . Their acquaintance was of short duration ; for poor Peg's rapidly declining health forced her soon after into re- tirement , and brought on her death early in 1760. She ...
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... matters of a lighter nature ; but pleasing even by their levity , by their variety , and their apti- tude to enter into common conversation . Things of this sort often gradually and imperceptibly insinuate a taste for knowledge , and in ...
... matters of a lighter nature ; but pleasing even by their levity , by their variety , and their apti- tude to enter into common conversation . Things of this sort often gradually and imperceptibly insinuate a taste for knowledge , and in ...
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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.