Memoir of the Life and Character of Edmund Burke: With Specimens of His Poetry and Letters, and an Estimate of His Genius and Talents, Compared with Those of His Great ContemporariesH. and E. Sheffield, 1839 - 596 pages |
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... interest and correctness ; and the inquiry and research resorted to with this view , though laborious , have not , it will be perceived , been in vain . The additional matter collected , almost the whole of which is original , adds a ...
... interest and correctness ; and the inquiry and research resorted to with this view , though laborious , have not , it will be perceived , been in vain . The additional matter collected , almost the whole of which is original , adds a ...
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... interest and of course accessible to every description of reader , has been likewise approved . Much of this favour to the author personally , is doubt- less owing to the great popularity of his subject with the best informed and ...
... interest and of course accessible to every description of reader , has been likewise approved . Much of this favour to the author personally , is doubt- less owing to the great popularity of his subject with the best informed and ...
Page xiv
... hand too late to be inserted in their proper places . * * In the present edition , the whole of the Addenda are inserted in their proper places . PREFACE . FEW things interest the curiosity of mankind more xiv ADVERTISEMENT .
... hand too late to be inserted in their proper places . * * In the present edition , the whole of the Addenda are inserted in their proper places . PREFACE . FEW things interest the curiosity of mankind more xiv ADVERTISEMENT .
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... interest the curiosity of mankind more , or prove so instructive in themselves , as to trace the pro- gress of a powerful mind , by the honourable exertion of its native energies , rising amid serious obstructions and difficulties from ...
... interest the curiosity of mankind more , or prove so instructive in themselves , as to trace the pro- gress of a powerful mind , by the honourable exertion of its native energies , rising amid serious obstructions and difficulties from ...
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... interest , and principles which he repeatedly opposed and disclaimed . In this spirit a reverend president of a political society at Liverpool not long ago stigmatised him as a deserter from the cause of parliamentary reform : and more ...
... interest , and principles which he repeatedly opposed and disclaimed . In this spirit a reverend president of a political society at Liverpool not long ago stigmatised him as a deserter from the cause of parliamentary reform : and more ...
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Page 155 - 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 170 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so, as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily •discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last, is, let me say, of no mean force in the government of mankind.
Page 356 - ... his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable and the tenor of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.
Page 91 - ... a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers; king's friends and republicans; Whigs and Tories; treacherous friends and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Page 216 - ... 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 171 - Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing. Liberty might be safe, or might be endangered, in twenty other particulars, without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound.
Page 174 - Sir, I think you must perceive that I am resolved this day to have nothing at all to do with the question of the right of taxation. Some gentlemen startle, but it is true. I put it totally out of the question. It is less than nothing in my consideration.
Page 492 - ... 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 obliged to show my passport, and again and again to prove my sole title to the honour of being...
Page 285 - Warren Hastings has not left substance enough in India to nourish such another delinquent. My Lords, is it a prosecutor you want ? You have before you the Commons of Great Britain as prosecutors ; and I believe, my Lords, that the sun, in his beneficent progress round the world, does not behold a more glorious sight than that of men, separated from a remote people by the material bounds and barriers of nature, united by the bond of a social and moral community — all the Commons of England resenting,...
Page 154 - When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beauteous countenance of British liberty, are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength, our opprobrium for their glory; and the slough of slavery, which we are not able to work off, to serve them for their freedom?