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... critics of philosophy never doubted that the writer , who- ever he was , meant all that he said . We can hardly help agreeing with Godwin , when he says that in Burke's treatise the evils of existing political institutions , which had ...
... critics of philosophy never doubted that the writer , who- ever he was , meant all that he said . We can hardly help agreeing with Godwin , when he says that in Burke's treatise the evils of existing political institutions , which had ...
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... criticism . This was Burke's most fundamental and unswerving conviction from the first piece that he wrote down to the last , and down to the last hour of his existence . It is a coincidence worth noticing that only two years before the ...
... criticism . This was Burke's most fundamental and unswerving conviction from the first piece that he wrote down to the last , and down to the last hour of his existence . It is a coincidence worth noticing that only two years before the ...
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John Morley. in Dugald Stewart's lectures . The great rhetorical art - critic of our own day refers to it in words of disparagement , and in truth it has none of the flummery of modern criticism . It is a piece of hard thinking , and it ...
John Morley. in Dugald Stewart's lectures . The great rhetorical art - critic of our own day refers to it in words of disparagement , and in truth it has none of the flummery of modern criticism . It is a piece of hard thinking , and it ...
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... of reckless and uncontrolled virulence . It has been stirred by one or two pertinacious critics nearer our own time , and none of the biographers have dealt with the per- But what is un- plexities of the matter as they 32 [ CHAP . BURKE .
... of reckless and uncontrolled virulence . It has been stirred by one or two pertinacious critics nearer our own time , and none of the biographers have dealt with the per- But what is un- plexities of the matter as they 32 [ CHAP . BURKE .
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... criticism of the career heroic to the greater Cicero of his own day . “ I was not , " Burke said , in a passage of lofty dignity , " like his Grace of Bedford , swaddled and rocked and dandled . into a legislator ; Nitor in adversum is ...
... criticism of the career heroic to the greater Cicero of his own day . “ I was not , " Burke said , in a passage of lofty dignity , " like his Grace of Bedford , swaddled and rocked and dandled . into a legislator ; Nitor in adversum is ...
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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...