Memoirs of the right honourable Edmund Burke; or, An impartial review of his private life, his public conduct, his speeches in parliament, and the different productions of his penLee and Hurst, 1798 - 378 էջ |
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... idea of fecondary importance . There are few characters to which this remark is more justly applicable than to that of Mr. Burke . The liveliness of his fancy , and the accuracy of his judgment ; --- the- grafp of his memory , and the ...
... idea of fecondary importance . There are few characters to which this remark is more justly applicable than to that of Mr. Burke . The liveliness of his fancy , and the accuracy of his judgment ; --- the- grafp of his memory , and the ...
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... ideas of the fublime and beautiful " had long engaged his attention , and exercised his pen . It may be confidered as a hive where this Attic bee was ftudioufly collecting the fweets of ancient and modern compofition . His intention was ...
... ideas of the fublime and beautiful " had long engaged his attention , and exercised his pen . It may be confidered as a hive where this Attic bee was ftudioufly collecting the fweets of ancient and modern compofition . His intention was ...
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... ideas of rectitude and justice are utterly erased from his mind . When ALEXANDER had in his fury in- humanly butchered one of his best friends and bravest captains , on the return of reafon he began to conceive an horror fuitable to the ...
... ideas of rectitude and justice are utterly erased from his mind . When ALEXANDER had in his fury in- humanly butchered one of his best friends and bravest captains , on the return of reafon he began to conceive an horror fuitable to the ...
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... idea of liberty , while it presents a vain shadow of happiness to the subject , binds fafter the chains of his fubjection . What is left undone by the natural avarice and pride of those who are raised above the others is com- pleted by ...
... idea of liberty , while it presents a vain shadow of happiness to the subject , binds fafter the chains of his fubjection . What is left undone by the natural avarice and pride of those who are raised above the others is com- pleted by ...
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... ideas of the fublime and beautiful . " No fubject could be better chofen to attract regard , and to exhibit the various powers and accomplishments of the writer in the strongest and fairest light . Under the fhew of the most infinuating ...
... ideas of the fublime and beautiful . " No fubject could be better chofen to attract regard , and to exhibit the various powers and accomplishments of the writer in the strongest and fairest light . Under the fhew of the most infinuating ...
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Memoirs of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Or, An Impartial Review of His ... Charles M'Cormick Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1797 |
Memoirs of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Or, An Impartial Review of His ... Charles M'Cormick Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1797 |
Memoirs of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Or, an Impartial Review of His ... Charles M'Cormick Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1798 |
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Էջ 38 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Էջ 220 - But, my lords, who is the man, that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared to authorize and associate to our arms the tomahawk and scalping-knife of the savage; to call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman inhabitant of the woods...
Էջ 141 - ... some way related to the business that was to be done within it. If he was ambitious, I will say this for him, his ambition was of a noble and generous strain. It was to raise himself not by...
Էջ 38 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Էջ 142 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Էջ 98 - ... them in a superior manner did not always preserve, when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape.
Էջ 98 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the great masters of the renowned ages.
Էջ 263 - But he has put to hazard his ease, his security, his interest, his power, even his darling popularity, for the benefit of a people whom he has never seen.
Էջ 38 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot, too cool; for a drudge, disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Էջ 104 - The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State, it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake.