Burke, Select Works: Reflections on the revolution in France. 1881Clarendon Press, 1881 |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 83
Стр. vii
... means unconnected with the 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 ...
... means unconnected with the 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 ...
Стр. xi
... means of the Gazettes of Paris , throughout the western world . Burke saw this , and to public opinion he appealed against the movement , and so far as this country was concerned , successfully . It was he whose ' shrilling trumpet ...
... means of the Gazettes of Paris , throughout the western world . Burke saw this , and to public opinion he appealed against the movement , and so far as this country was concerned , successfully . It was he whose ' shrilling trumpet ...
Стр. xiii
... means of verifying his bodings . Jacobinism had prevailed in France , and a Revolution had followed - it was coming to prevail in England , and a Revolution might be ex- pected . England had in France the highest reputation for ...
... means of verifying his bodings . Jacobinism had prevailed in France , and a Revolution had followed - it was coming to prevail in England , and a Revolution might be ex- pected . England had in France the highest reputation for ...
Стр. xxiv
... means they lead to the practice of things in shew , though not indeed repugnant and contrary one to another , requireth more sharpness of wit , more intricate circuitions of discourse , more industry and depth of judgment than common ...
... means they lead to the practice of things in shew , though not indeed repugnant and contrary one to another , requireth more sharpness of wit , more intricate circuitions of discourse , more industry and depth of judgment than common ...
Стр. xxv
... mean altogether taken away , what was first intended , uses not thought upon before may after- wards spring up , and ... means follows that the moral defect which this implies covers the whole ground to which they extend . Slumber seems ...
... mean altogether taken away , what was first intended , uses not thought upon before may after- wards spring up , and ... means follows that the moral defect which this implies covers the whole ground to which they extend . Slumber seems ...
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
abuse Alluding allusion antient argument Aristotle army assignats authority Bishop body Burke Burke's called cause character church Cicero civil clergy confiscation constitution crown degree despotism doctrine effect election Encyclopédie England English established estates evil expences favour force France French French Revolution habits hereditary honour House of Commons house of lords human ideas interest Jacobins justice king king of France kingdom landed Letter liberty Lord Louis XIV mankind means ment metaphysic mind minister monarchy Montesquieu moral National Assembly nature never nobility noble note to vol object Old Jewry opinion Paris Parliament persons philosophers political popular possessed present principle reason reform Regicide religion representation republic revenue Revolution Society says scheme sentiments sermon Soame Jenyns sort sovereign spirit thing thought tion true Turgot virtue wealth Whig whilst whole wisdom writings
Популярные отрывки
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...