Select Works: Reflections on the revolution in France. 1881; copies 2-4, 1888Clarendon Press, 1881 |
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Стр. v
... argument , with every semblance of legal exact- ness , is disturbed by hasty gusts of anger , and broken by chasins which yawn in the face of the least observant reader . It is an intellectual puzzle , not too abstruse for solution ...
... argument , with every semblance of legal exact- ness , is disturbed by hasty gusts of anger , and broken by chasins which yawn in the face of the least observant reader . It is an intellectual puzzle , not too abstruse for solution ...
Стр. vi
... argument : the book is written for the British public . He believed himself to foresee whither the revolu- tionary movement in France was tending : he saw one party in England regarding it with favour , the other with indifference : he ...
... argument : the book is written for the British public . He believed himself to foresee whither the revolu- tionary movement in France was tending : he saw one party in England regarding it with favour , the other with indifference : he ...
Стр. vii
... arguments which are advanced for or against them , the names and qualities with which they are invested in argument are altogether a secondary consideration . The position of the Church , for instance , or the Peerage , has not been ...
... arguments which are advanced for or against them , the names and qualities with which they are invested in argument are altogether a secondary consideration . The position of the Church , for instance , or the Peerage , has not been ...
Стр. ix
... arguments to a much wider public than of old . He recognises , what is now obvious enough , that English policy rests on the opinion of a reasonable democracy . The reader , in comparing the two volumes , will notice this difference in ...
... arguments to a much wider public than of old . He recognises , what is now obvious enough , that English policy rests on the opinion of a reasonable democracy . The reader , in comparing the two volumes , will notice this difference in ...
Стр. xiv
... argument on the internal politics of all nations of the earth : in that day , Englishmen chiefly regarded their own business . Had the Revo- lution been completely isolated , it would never have occupied Burke's pen . But the ...
... argument on the internal politics of all nations of the earth : in that day , Englishmen chiefly regarded their own business . Had the Revo- lution been completely isolated , it would never have occupied Burke's pen . But the ...
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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...