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... notice are not , it must be confessed , of a very strong kind . Yet , it so happens that few men of his day are much more frequently named , or more the object of curio- sity . The station which he filled in political society was ...
... notice are not , it must be confessed , of a very strong kind . Yet , it so happens that few men of his day are much more frequently named , or more the object of curio- sity . The station which he filled in political society was ...
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... notices may occur in the course of this memoir . Edmund Burke was born at his father's house , in Dublin , January , 1730. His childhood was sickly , and the consumptive habit , which had probably carried off so many of his brothers and ...
... notices may occur in the course of this memoir . Edmund Burke was born at his father's house , in Dublin , January , 1730. His childhood was sickly , and the consumptive habit , which had probably carried off so many of his brothers and ...
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... notice of his master , for the steadi- ness of his application , and the singular aptitude and vigour of his understanding . Attracted by the undoubted indications of unusual abilities , Mr Shackleton devoted a more than ordinary care ...
... notice of his master , for the steadi- ness of his application , and the singular aptitude and vigour of his understanding . Attracted by the undoubted indications of unusual abilities , Mr Shackleton devoted a more than ordinary care ...
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... notice , in any way proportioned to its deserts , was the celebrated Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful . Its publication was at once attended with unbounded applause ; while it elicited the most gratifying tributes of admiration from ...
... notice , in any way proportioned to its deserts , was the celebrated Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful . Its publication was at once attended with unbounded applause ; while it elicited the most gratifying tributes of admiration from ...
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... notice of the incidents of a connexion so honourable to Mr Burke , because they must hereafter be very fully detailed in Barry's memoir . We shall therefore only pause to notice the slander which has followed this , as it has most other ...
... notice of the incidents of a connexion so honourable to Mr Burke , because they must hereafter be very fully detailed in Barry's memoir . We shall therefore only pause to notice the slander which has followed this , as it has most other ...
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Page 283 - 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 366 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Page 293 - ... 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 282 - 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 293 - 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...
Page 283 - 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 404 - To subvert the tyranny of our execrable Government, to break the connection with England, the neverfailing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country — these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter — these were my means.
Page 261 - He made an administration, so chequered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white...
Page 265 - Nor has he dreaded the terror of your brow, sir; he has attacked even you — he has — and I believe you have no reason to triumph in the encounter. In short, after carrying away our royal eagle in his pounces, and dashing him against a rock, he has laid you prostrate. Kings, lords, and commons, are but the sport of his fury.
Page 324 - ... The spirit it is impossible not to admire ; but the old Parisian ferocity has broken out in a shocking manner. It is true, that this may be no more than a sudden explosion ; if so, no indication can be taken from it ; but if it should be character, rather than accident, then that people are not fit for liberty, and must have a strong hand, like that of their former masters, to coerce them.