Burke, Select Works: Reflections on the revolution in France. 1881Clarendon Press, 1881 |
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Стр. vii
... Lords , for instance , in the first volume of these Select Works , is asserted to be a form of popular representation ; in the present , the Peers are said to hold their share in the government by original and indefeasible right ...
... Lords , for instance , in the first volume of these Select Works , is asserted to be a form of popular representation ; in the present , the Peers are said to hold their share in the government by original and indefeasible right ...
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... Lords into something like the Grand Council of Venice . No political scheme was too absurd to lack an advocate . Universal suffrage , annual parlia- ments , and electoral districts were loudly demanded , and Dukes were counted among ...
... Lords into something like the Grand Council of Venice . No political scheme was too absurd to lack an advocate . Universal suffrage , annual parlia- ments , and electoral districts were loudly demanded , and Dukes were counted among ...
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... Lord Stanhope . The work , then , professes to be a general statement , con- fessedly hasty and fragmentary , of the political doctrines and sentiments of the English people . It was , on the whole , recog- nised as true . The body of ...
... Lord Stanhope . The work , then , professes to be a general statement , con- fessedly hasty and fragmentary , of the political doctrines and sentiments of the English people . It was , on the whole , recog- nised as true . The body of ...
Стр. xx
... Lord Eldon . He did not systematically discountenance all en- quiry , and scout all proposed reform . He had taken the lead in 1780 , in advocating reforms dealing with the Royal property , which have since been carried out with general ...
... Lord Eldon . He did not systematically discountenance all en- quiry , and scout all proposed reform . He had taken the lead in 1780 , in advocating reforms dealing with the Royal property , which have since been carried out with general ...
Стр. xxx
... lord of imbecility , And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right : or rather , right and wrong , ( Between whose endless jar justice resides ) Should lose their names , and so should justice too . Then ...
... lord of imbecility , And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right : or rather , right and wrong , ( Between whose endless jar justice resides ) Should lose their names , and so should justice too . Then ...
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Стр. 89 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Стр. 89 - 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. xxix - 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. 70 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should be frequently thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Стр. 13 - 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.
Стр. 39 - 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. 114 - As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead and those who are to be born. Each contract of each particular State is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical...
Стр. 39 - Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
Стр. 114 - It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Стр. 113 - Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure; but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary...