Burke, Select Works: Reflections on the revolution in France. 1881Clarendon Press, 1881 |
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... body of the nation , and not from a corps of professed intriguers , saved it from the moral disgrace which attended the Executive . Many were in favour of restoring soundness to the Executive as a preliminary reform ; and many were the ...
... body of the nation , and not from a corps of professed intriguers , saved it from the moral disgrace which attended the Executive . Many were in favour of restoring soundness to the Executive as a preliminary reform ; and many were the ...
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... body of oppressive interests which time and usage had legalised was too strong to give way to a moderate pressure . A convulsion , a mighty shock , a disturbance of normal forces , was necessary : and the French people had long been ...
... body of oppressive interests which time and usage had legalised was too strong to give way to a moderate pressure . A convulsion , a mighty shock , a disturbance of normal forces , was necessary : and the French people had long been ...
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... body of the British nation , from its historical traditions , from the opinions and doctrines transmitted to it from the earliest times , from its constitution and essence , was utterly hostile to these dangerous novelties , and bound ...
... body of the British nation , from its historical traditions , from the opinions and doctrines transmitted to it from the earliest times , from its constitution and essence , was utterly hostile to these dangerous novelties , and bound ...
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... body of the nation agreed in this fierce and eloquent denunciation . The Jacobins steadily went down in public estimation from the day of its publication . Burke's fiery philippic seemed to dry up their strength , as the sun dries up ...
... body of the nation agreed in this fierce and eloquent denunciation . The Jacobins steadily went down in public estimation from the day of its publication . Burke's fiery philippic seemed to dry up their strength , as the sun dries up ...
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... bodies of men , has been radically the same in all ages . In the laws of life we cannot hope for much additional illumination : new lights in general turn out to be old illusions . There is no unexplored terra australis , whether of ...
... bodies of men , has been radically the same in all ages . In the laws of life we cannot hope for much additional illumination : new lights in general turn out to be old illusions . There is no unexplored terra australis , whether of ...
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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...