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... century , Burke was only contemporary at the University with one , the luckless sizar who in the fulness of time wrote the Vicar of Wake- field . There is no evidence that at this time he and Gold- smith were acquainted with one another ...
... century , Burke was only contemporary at the University with one , the luckless sizar who in the fulness of time wrote the Vicar of Wake- field . There is no evidence that at this time he and Gold- smith were acquainted with one another ...
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... beginning , therefore , Burke was drawn to the deepest of all the currents in the thought of the eighteenth century . Johnson and Goldsmith continued the traditions of social and polite literature which had been 16 [ CHAP . BURKE.
... beginning , therefore , Burke was drawn to the deepest of all the currents in the thought of the eighteenth century . Johnson and Goldsmith continued the traditions of social and polite literature which had been 16 [ CHAP . BURKE.
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... century when theological contro- versy was turned into political controversy . Innovators left the question about the truth of Christianity , and bus- ied themselves with questions about the ends and means of governments . The ...
... century when theological contro- versy was turned into political controversy . Innovators left the question about the truth of Christianity , and bus- ied themselves with questions about the ends and means of governments . The ...
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... century in bestowing on it the coveted epithet of epoch - making . The book is full of crudities . We feel the worse side of the eighteenth century when Burke tells us that a thirst for Variety in architecture is sure to leave very ...
... century in bestowing on it the coveted epithet of epoch - making . The book is full of crudities . We feel the worse side of the eighteenth century when Burke tells us that a thirst for Variety in architecture is sure to leave very ...
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... century was to England just what the American colonies would have been , if they had contained , besides the European settlers , more than twice their number of unenslaved negroes . After the suppression of the great rebellion of ...
... century was to England just what the American colonies would have been , if they had contained , besides the European settlers , more than twice their number of unenslaved negroes . After the suppression of the great rebellion of ...
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Стр. 194 - 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.
Стр. 100 - Animated with all the avarice of age and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in one after another, wave after wave, and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting.
Стр. 71 - But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience, — these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution.
Стр. 71 - 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. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.
Стр. 100 - Here the manufacturer and husbandman will bless the just and punctual hand that in India has torn the cloth from the loom, or wrested the scanty portion of rice and salt from the peasant of Bengal, or wrung from him the very opium in which he forgot his oppressions and his oppressor.
Стр. 107 - it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched state indeed when your company would not be a delight to me.' Mr. Burke, in a tremulous voice, expressive of being very tenderly affected, replied. ' My dear Sir, you have always been too good to me.
Стр. 8 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalise the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Стр. 71 - 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...