Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke, Volume 21811 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 21
Page 6
... constitution as ours , to leave ambition without popular motives , and to trust all to the operation of pure virtue in the minds of kings and ministers , and public men , must be submitted to the judgment and good sense of the 6.
... constitution as ours , to leave ambition without popular motives , and to trust all to the operation of pure virtue in the minds of kings and ministers , and public men , must be submitted to the judgment and good sense of the 6.
Page 19
... leave , perhaps , enough of energy in the mind fairly to discern what are good terms or what are not . Men low and dispirited may regard those terms as not at all amiss , which in another state of mind they would think intolerable : if ...
... leave , perhaps , enough of energy in the mind fairly to discern what are good terms or what are not . Men low and dispirited may regard those terms as not at all amiss , which in another state of mind they would think intolerable : if ...
Page 34
... leave to observe , that it is not only the in- vidious branch of taxation that will be resisted , but that no other given part of legislative rights can be exer- cised , without regard to the general opinion of those who are to be ...
... leave to observe , that it is not only the in- vidious branch of taxation that will be resisted , but that no other given part of legislative rights can be exer- cised , without regard to the general opinion of those who are to be ...
Page 45
... leave room fully sufficient for healing coalitions : but no coalition , which , under the speci- ous name of independency , carries in its bosom the unreconciled principles of the original discord of parties ever was , or will be , an ...
... leave room fully sufficient for healing coalitions : but no coalition , which , under the speci- ous name of independency , carries in its bosom the unreconciled principles of the original discord of parties ever was , or will be , an ...
Page 52
... leave to the crown the possi- bility of conferring some favours , which , whilst they are received as a reward , do not operate as corruption . When men receive obligations from the crown through the pious hands of fathers , or of ...
... leave to the crown the possi- bility of conferring some favours , which , whilst they are received as a reward , do not operate as corruption . When men receive obligations from the crown through the pious hands of fathers , or of ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action ambition amongst authority become body cabal canting language cause character church of England citizens civil society common commonwealth conduct connexion consideration considered constitution constitution of Poland controul corrupt court crown dangerous degree dignity disposition duty effect election enemy established evil exist faults favour fear fortune France glory habit hands honour human idea imagination influence interest justice kind king labour liberty ligion Lord Lord Keppel mankind manner means ment mercenary war mind ministers mode monarchy moral nation nature never nexion nobility object opinion parliament party passions peace perhaps persons politic of France political possessed prejudice presbyterian church government principles probabilior reason reformation regicide religion representation revolution rience ruin sentiments sort speculations spirit suffer sure talents temper thing thirty-nine articles tical tion trust vices virtue wealth whigs whole wisdom wise
Popular passages
Page 62 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, — and ever will be so, as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is, let me say, of no mean force in the government of mankind.
Page 41 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 101 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.
Page 139 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of...
Page 63 - Those who quit their proper character, to assume •what does not belong to them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave, and of the character rthey assume.
Page 81 - The science of government being therefore so practical in itself, and intended for such practical purposes, a matter which requires experience, and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and observing he may be, it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice, which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or of building it up again without having models and patterns of approved...
Page 66 - Many of our men of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudices, employ their sagacity to discover the latent wisdom which prevails in them. If they find what they seek (and they seldom fail) they think it more wise to continue the prejudice, with the reason involved, than to cast away the coat of prejudice and to leave nothing but the naked reason...
Page 25 - The strong struggle in every individual to preserve possession of what he has found to belong to him and to distinguish him, is one of the securities against injustice and despotism implanted in our nature. It operates as an instinct to secure property, and to preserve communities in a settled state. What is there to shock in this? Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Page 122 - ... proceeded in supplying government as liberally, if you had not stepped in and hindered them from contributing, by interrupting the channel in which their liberality flowed with so strong a course ; by attempting to take, instead of being satisfied to receive ? Sir William Temple says, that Holland has loaded itself with ten times the impositions which it revolted from Spain, rather than submit to. He says true. Tyranny is a poor provider. It knows neither how to accumulate, nor how to extract.