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... ment with him , that artificial society had marked a de- cline in the felicity of man , and there are passages in the Discourse in which he demonstrates this , that are easily interchangeable with passages in the Vindication . Who would ...
... ment with him , that artificial society had marked a de- cline in the felicity of man , and there are passages in the Discourse in which he demonstrates this , that are easily interchangeable with passages in the Vindication . Who would ...
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... ment for himself and his party , was induced to offer Burke a post as his private secretary . A government by country gentlemen is too apt to be a government of ignorance , and Lord Rockingham was without either experience or knowledge ...
... ment for himself and his party , was induced to offer Burke a post as his private secretary . A government by country gentlemen is too apt to be a government of ignorance , and Lord Rockingham was without either experience or knowledge ...
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... ment was ruining itself , and that the colonies threatened a catastrophe . Catherine of Russia thought that nothing would restore its ancient vigour to the realm , short of the bracing and heroic remedy of a war . Even at home , such ...
... ment was ruining itself , and that the colonies threatened a catastrophe . Catherine of Russia thought that nothing would restore its ancient vigour to the realm , short of the bracing and heroic remedy of a war . Even at home , such ...
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... ment . Wilkes stubbornly refused to pay any attention to repeated summonses to attend at the bar of the House , very properly insisting that he ought to be summoned to Besides attend in his place as member for Middlesex . 42 [ CHAP . BURKE ...
... ment . Wilkes stubbornly refused to pay any attention to repeated summonses to attend at the bar of the House , very properly insisting that he ought to be summoned to Besides attend in his place as member for Middlesex . 42 [ CHAP . BURKE ...
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... the most formidable battery that reason and ex- perience can construct against them . And Wilkes's exclu- sion endured until this Parliament - the Unreported Parlia- ment , as it was called , and in many III . ] 43 PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE .
... the most formidable battery that reason and ex- perience can construct against them . And Wilkes's exclu- sion endured until this Parliament - the Unreported Parlia- ment , as it was called , and in many III . ] 43 PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE .
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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...