Select Works: Reflections on the revolution in France. 1881; copies 2-4, 1888Clarendon Press, 1881 |
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... called him , ' the most double - minded man that ever lived . ' But a man who is not thus far double - minded can never be a politician , though he may be a hero and a martyr . Abstract truths , when embodied in the form of popular ...
... called him , ' the most double - minded man that ever lived . ' But a man who is not thus far double - minded can never be a politician , though he may be a hero and a martyr . Abstract truths , when embodied in the form of popular ...
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... called for the ' ancient Saxon con- stitution . ' What it was , and what right they had to it , or how it was to be adapted to modern requirements , they did not very well know , but the lawyers were able to tell them . The lawyers ...
... called for the ' ancient Saxon con- stitution . ' What it was , and what right they had to it , or how it was to be adapted to modern requirements , they did not very well know , but the lawyers were able to tell them . The lawyers ...
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... bound the English nation for ever , his reasoning was obviously false . The whole pro- cedure of Burke throughout this book is , as has been observed , VOL . II , b avowedly that of an advocate . In his apology called INTRODUCTION . xvii.
... bound the English nation for ever , his reasoning was obviously false . The whole pro- cedure of Burke throughout this book is , as has been observed , VOL . II , b avowedly that of an advocate . In his apology called INTRODUCTION . xvii.
Стр. xviii
Edmund Burke Edward John Payne. avowedly that of an advocate . In his apology called the ' Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs , ' he states as the reason that when any one of the members of a vast and balanced whole is endangered , he ...
Edmund Burke Edward John Payne. avowedly that of an advocate . In his apology called the ' Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs , ' he states as the reason that when any one of the members of a vast and balanced whole is endangered , he ...
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... called his objectiveness . He does not task his characters to utter his private sentiments and convictions . His characters are realities , not masks . But no one who has endeavoured to penetrate the mind of Shakspere as reflected in ...
... called his objectiveness . He does not task his characters to utter his private sentiments and convictions . His characters are realities , not masks . But no one who has endeavoured to penetrate the mind of Shakspere as reflected in ...
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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...