Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Between the Year 1744 and the Period of His Decease, in 1797, Volume 3F. & J. Rivington, 1844 - 518 pagina's |
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Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Between the Year 1744 ... Edmund Burke Volledige weergave - 1844 |
Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Between the Year 1744 ... Edmund Burke Volledige weergave - 1844 |
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Adieu affairs affectionate assembly assure Beconsfield believe Bintinnaye Brussells BURKE TO RICHARD Burke's Calonne Catholics cause certainly conduct consider constitution court DEAR SIR DEAREST declaration desire disposition doubt Duke Duke of Portland EDMUND BURKE effect Emperor endeavour England faction favour feel France French gentlemen give happy Hastings HENRY DUNDAS honour hope House of Commons House of Lords idea impeachment interest Ireland justice kind king king of France king of Prussia king's late least letter liberty Lord Lord Fitzwilliam manner matter means ment mind ministers monarchy nation natural never object obliged occasion opinion parliament party perfectly person Pitt political present prince principles received regard RICHARD BROCKLESBY RICHARD BURKE RIGHT sentiments sincere sort spirit suffer suppose sure thing thought tion trust tyranny virtue whilst whole wish write
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Pagina 159 - never abandoning for a moment any of the claims which he made under the fundamental laws, nor sparing to shed the blood of those who opposed him, often in the field, sometimes on the scaffold.
Pagina 82 - 1788. MY VERY DEAR FRIEND, My veneration of your public conduct for many years past, and my real affection for your private virtues, and transcendent worth, made me yesterday take a liberty with you, in a moment's conversation at my house, to make you an instant present of £1000, which for years past,
Pagina 148 - is not so becoming. It is not calling the landed estates, possessed by old prescriptive rights, " the accumulations of ignorance and superstition," that can support me in shaking that grand title which supersedes every other title, and which all my studies of general jurisprudence have taught me to consider as one principal cause of the formation of
Pagina 219 - In the place of all this, they substitute a virtue which they call humanity or benevolence. By these means their morality has no idea in it of restraint, or indeed of a distinct settled principle of any kind. When their disciples are thus left free, and guided only by present feeling, they are no longer to be depended
Pagina 219 - They explode, or render odious or contemptible, that class of virtues which restrain the appetite. These are at least nine out of ten of the virtues. In the place of all this, they substitute a virtue which they call humanity or benevolence. By these means their morality has no idea in it of restraint, or indeed of a distinct settled
Pagina 219 - means their morality has no idea in it of restraint, or indeed of a distinct settled principle of any kind. When their disciples are thus left free, and guided only by present feeling, they are no longer to be depended upon for good or evil. The men who, to-day, snatch the worst criminals from justice, will murder the most innocent persons tomorrow.
Pagina 82 - which for years past, by will, I had destined, as a testimony of my regard, on my decease. This you modestly desired me not to think of; but I told you what I now repeat, that, unfavoured as I have lived
Pagina 428 - Every thing turned out fortunately for poor Sir Joshua, from the moment of his birth to the hour I saw him laid in the earth. Never was a funeral of ceremony attended with so much sincere concern of all sorts of people. The day was
Pagina 233 - I, for instance, like many others, have always thought myself an old whig, and held the same principles with yourself; but I suppose none, or very few of us, ever thought upon the subject with so much correctness ; and hardly any would be able to express their thoughts with such clearness, justness, and force of argument.
Pagina 435 - Augusti matrem praefuisse educationibus, ac produxisse principes liberos accepimus, quae disciplina ac severitas eo pertinebat, ut sincera, et integra, et nullis pravitatibus detorta, uniuscuj usque natura toto statim pectore arriperet artes