A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With Extracts from His Writings, Volume 1W. Blackwood & sons, 1840 - Politicians |
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... French Revolution of 1789 , there might be some advantage in lay- ing before the public , in a more succinct and ac- cessible form than in his volumes , the opinions of that extraordinary and powerful mind , which had acted so large a ...
... French Revolution of 1789 , there might be some advantage in lay- ing before the public , in a more succinct and ac- cessible form than in his volumes , the opinions of that extraordinary and powerful mind , which had acted so large a ...
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... French Revolution , " there were thousands in England as full of frenzy , as ever were the wearers of crowns of straw . Every public sense was in a state of illusion , France was the great temptress , and to the multitude , her naked an ...
... French Revolution , " there were thousands in England as full of frenzy , as ever were the wearers of crowns of straw . Every public sense was in a state of illusion , France was the great temptress , and to the multitude , her naked an ...
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... French Finance - Neckar , CHAPTER VI . Public Opinion of the Speech - On Economical Reform - Elo- quence of Public Men - Burke Retires from Bristol - Fine Sketch of Howard - The Borough System - Crabbe the Poet- Character of Fox ...
... French Finance - Neckar , CHAPTER VI . Public Opinion of the Speech - On Economical Reform - Elo- quence of Public Men - Burke Retires from Bristol - Fine Sketch of Howard - The Borough System - Crabbe the Poet- Character of Fox ...
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... French Infidelity - Providential Protection of England - Riots of 1780 Power of Pitt - French Revolution - Burke's Singular Sagacity , 253 CHAPTER XII . Burke's Taste for the Arts - Reynolds - Barry - Burke's Criticism on the Pictures ...
... French Infidelity - Providential Protection of England - Riots of 1780 Power of Pitt - French Revolution - Burke's Singular Sagacity , 253 CHAPTER XII . Burke's Taste for the Arts - Reynolds - Barry - Burke's Criticism on the Pictures ...
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... French infidelity ; and paid his debt of gratitude to England by preparing the poisons of Berlin and Paris for the lips of his countrymen . It was to the honour of Burke , that , in his youth , and in the midst of a general delusion of ...
... French infidelity ; and paid his debt of gratitude to England by preparing the poisons of Berlin and Paris for the lips of his countrymen . It was to the honour of Burke , that , in his youth , and in the midst of a general delusion of ...
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Page 150 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 92 - 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 100 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. 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 100 - I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the I775O CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES. 29! haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit...
Page 102 - ... deserts. If you drive the people from one place, they will carry on their annual tillage and remove with their flocks and herds to another. Many of the people in the back settlements are already little attached to particular situations. Already they have topped the Appalachian mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain, one vast, rich, level meadow; a square of five hundred miles.
Page 92 - My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. 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...
Page 99 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Page 149 - ... than the opinions of many would go along with me. In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress, I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted.
Page 101 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Page 92 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but...