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... the capacity of a very small and charily recruited . body , is sure in time to become a monstrous burden to the community in which it prevails , and to find itself confronted with popular revolution in a more or less CHARACTERISTICS . 5.
... the capacity of a very small and charily recruited . body , is sure in time to become a monstrous burden to the community in which it prevails , and to find itself confronted with popular revolution in a more or less CHARACTERISTICS . 5.
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... body . Burke admired it on this very account . The House of Commons was designed as " a control for the people . " Never at any time did he abandon this tutelary view of the relations between the people and the House ; that the ...
... body . Burke admired it on this very account . The House of Commons was designed as " a control for the people . " Never at any time did he abandon this tutelary view of the relations between the people and the House ; that the ...
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... body with popular sympathies " as the Duke of Bedford and his crew . If we would learn the impulse which Burke gave to this corrupt and fallen faction , we have only to compare the Duke of Bedford , as Mr. Massey has described him ...
... body with popular sympathies " as the Duke of Bedford and his crew . If we would learn the impulse which Burke gave to this corrupt and fallen faction , we have only to compare the Duke of Bedford , as Mr. Massey has described him ...
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... body corporate , may alter her laws without changing her identity . " This argument was strong enough , as against the case of the clerical petitioners , for they expressly declared their willing- ness to accept a compulsory ...
... body corporate , may alter her laws without changing her identity . " This argument was strong enough , as against the case of the clerical petitioners , for they expressly declared their willing- ness to accept a compulsory ...
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... early that this was the unmistake- able temper of Burke's mind . " I admired , as every- body did , " he says , " the talents , but not the principles of Mr. Burke ; his opposition to the Clerical Petition 50 EDMUND BURKE .
... early that this was the unmistake- able temper of Burke's mind . " I admired , as every- body did , " he says , " the talents , but not the principles of Mr. Burke ; his opposition to the Clerical Petition 50 EDMUND BURKE .
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Page 149 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession proper but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant? Or does it lessen the grace or dignity of relaxing in the exercise of an odious claim, because you have your...
Page 57 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Page 280 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason ; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
Page 311 - If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it ; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear ; every hope will forward it; and t/ien they who persist in opposing this mighty current in human affairs, will appear rather to resist the decrees of Providence itself, than the mere designs of men. They will not be resolute and firm, but perverse and obstinate.
Page 131 - It is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the protestant religion. This religion, under a variety of denominations, agreeing in nothing but in the communion of the spirit of liberty, is predominant in most of the northern provinces, where the Church of England, notwithstanding its legal rights, is in reality no more than a sort of private sect, not composing most probably the tenth of the people.
Page 148 - But my consideration is narrow, confined, and wholly limited to the policy of the question. I do not examine, whether the giving away a man's money be a power excepted and reserved out of the general trust of government ; and how far all mankind, in all forms of polity, are entitled to an exercise of that right by the charter of nature. Or whether, on the contrary, a right of taxation is necessarily involved in the general principle of legislation, and inseparable from the ordinary supreme power....
Page 60 - is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool. As little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts, by imposing on the understandings, of the people. At every step of my progress in life, (for in every step was I traversed and opposed,) and at every turnpike I met, I was...
Page 141 - ... in order to prove that the Americans have no right to their liberties, we are every day endeavoring to subvert the maxims which preserve the whole spirit of our own.
Page 110 - 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 192 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human na- • toe itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity , of man.