Burke, Select Works: Reflections on the revolution in France. 1881Clarendon Press, 1881 |
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Стр. xii
... thought and feeling on the sub- ject of Revolutions in general . On the applicability of these general views to the occasion of their enunciation , it is not necessary for the reader to form any definite judgment . Pro- perly speaking ...
... thought and feeling on the sub- ject of Revolutions in general . On the applicability of these general views to the occasion of their enunciation , it is not necessary for the reader to form any definite judgment . Pro- perly speaking ...
Стр. xx
... thought entitled a qualified commendation . His views on the subject were however very different from those of his contemporary , Lord Eldon . He did not systematically discountenance all en- quiry , and scout all proposed reform . He ...
... thought entitled a qualified commendation . His views on the subject were however very different from those of his contemporary , Lord Eldon . He did not systematically discountenance all en- quiry , and scout all proposed reform . He ...
Стр. xxii
... thought , to attain the end for which it was devised , must be allowed to work fairly and continuously . To be perpetually stopping its system for the purpose of trying experiments , was an error venial only in a child . To destroy it ...
... thought , to attain the end for which it was devised , must be allowed to work fairly and continuously . To be perpetually stopping its system for the purpose of trying experiments , was an error venial only in a child . To destroy it ...
Стр. xxiii
... thought the very disturbance of things established an hire sufficient to set them on work . ' The reader of Hooker can hardly fail to be struck by his coincidence with Burke's mode of thought and argument . Both point out the value of ...
... thought the very disturbance of things established an hire sufficient to set them on work . ' The reader of Hooker can hardly fail to be struck by his coincidence with Burke's mode of thought and argument . Both point out the value of ...
Стр. xxv
... thought upon before may after- wards spring up , and be reasonable causes of retaining that which other considerations did formerly procure to be instituted . And it cometh sometime to pass , that a thing unnecessary in itself as ...
... thought upon before may after- wards spring up , and be reasonable causes of retaining that which other considerations did formerly procure to be instituted . And it cometh sometime to pass , that a thing unnecessary in itself as ...
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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...