Edmund Burke, Apostle of Justice and LibertyWatts & Company, 1905 - 199 pages |
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... Reflections on the " Revolution in France " -a description which , for beauty of imagery and impassioned eloquence , is probably unsurpassed in English literature . Or take the famous panegyric on Fox , with which he concluded his ...
... Reflections on the " Revolution in France " -a description which , for beauty of imagery and impassioned eloquence , is probably unsurpassed in English literature . Or take the famous panegyric on Fox , with which he concluded his ...
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... Reflections on " the Revolution in France , " his " Appeal from the " New to the Old Whigs , " and his speech at the close of the poll at Bristol in 1774 , where he defines the position and duties of a Member of Parliament , all afford ...
... Reflections on " the Revolution in France , " his " Appeal from the " New to the Old Whigs , " and his speech at the close of the poll at Bristol in 1774 , where he defines the position and duties of a Member of Parliament , all afford ...
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... reflection upon your wisdom " to persist in a solemn parliamentary declaration of " the expediency of any object , for which , at the 66 66 same time , you make no sort of provision . And ' pray , Sir , let not this circumstance escape ...
... reflection upon your wisdom " to persist in a solemn parliamentary declaration of " the expediency of any object , for which , at the 66 66 same time , you make no sort of provision . And ' pray , Sir , let not this circumstance escape ...
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... Reflections " on the Revolution in France " he says : " Men have a right to the fruits of their industry , to the means of making their industry fruitful ....... Whatever each man can separately do , without trespassing on 66 66 66 66 ...
... Reflections " on the Revolution in France " he says : " Men have a right to the fruits of their industry , to the means of making their industry fruitful ....... Whatever each man can separately do , without trespassing on 66 66 66 66 ...
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... , and the other Whig leaders acclaimed the uprising with enthusiasm , Burke proceeded to write that most famous of all his works , " Reflections on " the Revolution in France , and on the Proceedings 144 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
... , and the other Whig leaders acclaimed the uprising with enthusiasm , Burke proceeded to write that most famous of all his works , " Reflections on " the Revolution in France , and on the Proceedings 144 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
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Page 156 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper, and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 64 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be one thing and their privileges another ; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation ; the cement is gone, the cohesion is loosened, and everything hastens to decay and dissolution.
Page 156 - 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.
Page 153 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 66 - ... the great contexture of this mysterious whole. These things do not make your government. Dead instruments, passive tools as they are, it is the spirit of the English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English Constitution, which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member.
Page 176 - If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination : and, what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments...
Page 82 - All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of pursuing...
Page 66 - Act which raises your revenue ? that it is the annual vote in the Committee of Supply which gives you your army ? or that it is the Mutiny Bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline ? No ! surely no ! It is the love of the people, it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Page 50 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 67 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.