The Works of ... Edmund Burke, Τόμος 5F. & C. Rivington, 1803 |
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Σελίδα 13
... destroyed all the balances and counterpoifes which serve to fix the state , and to give it a steady direction ; and which furnish fure correctives to any violent spirit which may prevail in any of the orders . These balances existed in ...
... destroyed all the balances and counterpoifes which serve to fix the state , and to give it a steady direction ; and which furnish fure correctives to any violent spirit which may prevail in any of the orders . These balances existed in ...
Σελίδα 103
... destroying angel , fimote the country , com . municated to it the force and energy under which it fuffered . I do not say ( God forbid ) I do not say , that the virtues of fuch men were to be taken as a balance to their crimes ; but ...
... destroying angel , fimote the country , com . municated to it the force and energy under which it fuffered . I do not say ( God forbid ) I do not say , that the virtues of fuch men were to be taken as a balance to their crimes ; but ...
Σελίδα 110
... destroyed , and ra- tional liberty has no existence . All you have got for the present is a paper circulation , and a stock- jobbing conftitution : and as to the future , do you seriously think that the territory of France , upon the ...
... destroyed , and ra- tional liberty has no existence . All you have got for the present is a paper circulation , and a stock- jobbing conftitution : and as to the future , do you seriously think that the territory of France , upon the ...
Σελίδα 118
... destroy , or they seem to themselves to exift for no purpose . One fet is for destroying the civil power through the ecclefi- aftical ; another for demolishing the ecclefiaftick through the civil . They are aware that the worst ...
... destroy , or they seem to themselves to exift for no purpose . One fet is for destroying the civil power through the ecclefi- aftical ; another for demolishing the ecclefiaftick through the civil . They are aware that the worst ...
Σελίδα 137
... a grave legislative body - nec color imperii , nec frons erat ulla fenatus . They have a power given to them , like that of the evil principle , to fubvert fubvert and destroy ; but none to construct , except REVOLUTION IN FRANCE . 137.
... a grave legislative body - nec color imperii , nec frons erat ulla fenatus . They have a power given to them , like that of the evil principle , to fubvert fubvert and destroy ; but none to construct , except REVOLUTION IN FRANCE . 137.
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Σελίδα 79 - ... 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, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Σελίδα 121 - But he has not a right to an equal dividend in the product of the joint stock; and as to the share of power, authority, and direction which each individual ought to have in the management of the state, that I must deny to be amongst the direct original rights of man in civil society; for I have in my contemplation the civil social man, and no other.
Σελίδα 42 - 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.
Σελίδα 184 - 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 and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection.
Σελίδα 79 - The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of Providence, are handed down to us, and from us in the same course and order. 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...
Σελίδα 183 - ... approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
Σελίδα 79 - By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.
Σελίδα 172 - Who, born within the last forty years, has read one word of Collins, and Toland, and Tindal, and Chubb, and Morgan, and that whole race who called themselves Freethinkers? Who now reads Bolingbroke? Who ever read him through?
Σελίδα 78 - You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Σελίδα 36 - Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered?