The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2John West and O.C. Greenleaf, 1807 |
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... liberty , but to liberty according to English ideas , and on English principles . Abstract liberty , like oth- er mere abstractions , is not to be found . Liberty inheres in some sensible objects ; and every nation has formed to itself ...
... liberty , but to liberty according to English ideas , and on English principles . Abstract liberty , like oth- er mere abstractions , is not to be found . Liberty inheres in some sensible objects ; and every nation has formed to itself ...
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... liberty , but built upon it . I do not think , Sir , that the reason of this a- verseness in the dissenting churches from all that looks like absolute government is so much to be sought in their reli- gious tenets , as in their history ...
... liberty , but built upon it . I do not think , Sir , that the reason of this a- verseness in the dissenting churches from all that looks like absolute government is so much to be sought in their reli- gious tenets , as in their history ...
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... liberty , is predominant in most of the nothern provinces ; where the church of England , notwithstanding its legal rights , is in reality no more than a sort of private sect , not composing most probably the tenth of the people . The ...
... liberty , is predominant in most of the nothern provinces ; where the church of England , notwithstanding its legal rights , is in reality no more than a sort of private sect , not composing most probably the tenth of the people . The ...
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... liberty has grown up . It has grown with the growth of the people in your colonies , and increased with the increase of their wealth ; a spirit , that unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in England , which , however lawful , is ...
... liberty has grown up . It has grown with the growth of the people in your colonies , and increased with the increase of their wealth ; a spirit , that unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in England , which , however lawful , is ...
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... liberty might be desired , more reconcileable with an arbitrary and boundless authority . Perhaps we might wish the colonists to be per- suaded , that their liberty is more secure when held in trust for them by us ( as their guardians ...
... liberty might be desired , more reconcileable with an arbitrary and boundless authority . Perhaps we might wish the colonists to be per- suaded , that their liberty is more secure when held in trust for them by us ( as their guardians ...
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Page 14 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole — where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Page 31 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 79 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 78 - My hold of the Colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.
Page 36 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were the Poles, and such will be all masters of .slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.
Page 31 - Straits — while we are looking for them beneath the Arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of Polar cold — that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.* Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Page 432 - 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 horses, — were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile...
Page 45 - The ocean remains. You cannot pump this dry, and as long as it continues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. " Ye Gods annihilate but space and time, and make two lovers happy...
Page 15 - If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form a hasty opinion, evidently opposite to the real good of the rest of the community, the member for that place ought to be as far, as any other, from any endeavour to give it effect.
Page 14 - 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...