Burke, Select Works, Том 3Clarendon Press, 1877 - Всего страниц: 712 |
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... metaphysics has been held to consist of but two propositions . The first , which is involved in the Cogito , ergo sum , of Descartes , may be expressed as ' Here I am . ' The second as ' I did not put myself here . ' To cut ourselves ...
... metaphysics has been held to consist of but two propositions . The first , which is involved in the Cogito , ergo sum , of Descartes , may be expressed as ' Here I am . ' The second as ' I did not put myself here . ' To cut ourselves ...
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... metaphysical abstraction . Circumstances ( which with some gentlemen pass for nothing ) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour , and discriminating effect . The circumstances are what render every civil ...
... metaphysical abstraction . Circumstances ( which with some gentlemen pass for nothing ) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour , and discriminating effect . The circumstances are what render every civil ...
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... metaphysic Knight of the Sorrowful Coun- tenance . When I see the spirit of liberty in action , I see a strong principle at work ; and this , for a while , is all I can possibly know of it . The wild gas , the fixed air , is plainly ...
... metaphysic Knight of the Sorrowful Coun- tenance . When I see the spirit of liberty in action , I see a strong principle at work ; and this , for a while , is all I can possibly know of it . The wild gas , the fixed air , is plainly ...
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... metaphysic sophistry , the use both of a fixed rule and an occasional deviation ; the sacredness of an hereditary principle of suc- cession in our government , with a power of change in its application in cases of extreme emergency ...
... metaphysic sophistry , the use both of a fixed rule and an occasional deviation ; the sacredness of an hereditary principle of suc- cession in our government , with a power of change in its application in cases of extreme emergency ...
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... nothing to say to the clumsy subtilty of their political metaphysics . Let them be their amusement in the schools . ' Illa se jactet in aula - Æolus , et 68 REVOLUTION IN FRANCE . be broken. Calamitous no doubt will that time be...
... nothing to say to the clumsy subtilty of their political metaphysics . Let them be their amusement in the schools . ' Illa se jactet in aula - Æolus , et 68 REVOLUTION IN FRANCE . be broken. Calamitous no doubt will that time be...
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Стр. 85 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Стр. xxv - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Стр. 27 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Стр. xxvi - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad: But when the planets, In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea! shaking of earth! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture...
Стр. 35 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Стр. 65 - They have a right to the fruits of their industry; and to the means of making their industry fruitful. They have a right to the acquisitions of their parents; to the nourishment and improvement of their offspring; to instruction in life, and to consolation in death.
Стр. 19 - And thereunto the said lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, do, in the name of all the people aforesaid, most humbly and faithfully submit themselves, their heirs and posterities for ever...
Стр. 306 - Such are their ideas, such their religion, and such their law. But as to our country, and our race, as long as the well-compacted structure of our church and state, the sanctuary, the holy of holies of that ancient law, defended by reverence, defended by power, a fortress at once and a temple...
Стр. 286 - They must respect that property of which they cannot partake. They must labour to obtain what by labour can be obtained ; and when they find, as they commonly do, the success disproportioned to the endeavour, they must be taught their consolation in the final proportions of eternal justice.
Стр. 9 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.