The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Հատոր 1John West and O.C. Greenleaf, 1806 |
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... perhaps these will not be looked upon as faults by the admir- ers of Lord BOLINGBROKE ; who will , the editor is afraid , ob- serve much more of his Lordship's character in such particu- lars of the following letter , than they are like ...
... perhaps these will not be looked upon as faults by the admir- ers of Lord BOLINGBROKE ; who will , the editor is afraid , ob- serve much more of his Lordship's character in such particu- lars of the following letter , than they are like ...
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... perhaps has designed us for a state of imperfection , has imposed ; how far our physical skill has cured our constitutional disorders ; and whether it may not have introduced new ones , curable perhaps by no skill .. • In looking over ...
... perhaps has designed us for a state of imperfection , has imposed ; how far our physical skill has cured our constitutional disorders ; and whether it may not have introduced new ones , curable perhaps by no skill .. • In looking over ...
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... perhaps of any other nation in the world : though the histories of all na- tions are made up of similar matter . I once more excuse my- self in point of exactness for want of books . But I shall esti- mate the slaughters in this island ...
... perhaps of any other nation in the world : though the histories of all na- tions are made up of similar matter . I once more excuse my- self in point of exactness for want of books . But I shall esti- mate the slaughters in this island ...
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... perhaps exaggerated ; therefore I shall only rate them at one million . Let us hasten to open that great scene which establishes the Roman empire , and forms the grand catastrophe of the ancient dra- ma . This empire , whilst in its ...
... perhaps exaggerated ; therefore I shall only rate them at one million . Let us hasten to open that great scene which establishes the Roman empire , and forms the grand catastrophe of the ancient dra- ma . This empire , whilst in its ...
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... perhaps spoke of the five - hundredth part ; I am sure I have not of what is actu ally ascertained in history ; but how much of these butch- eries are only expressed in generals , what part of time history kas never reached , and what ...
... perhaps spoke of the five - hundredth part ; I am sure I have not of what is actu ally ascertained in history ; but how much of these butch- eries are only expressed in generals , what part of time history kas never reached , and what ...
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Էջ 109 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes, There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Էջ 206 - O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
Էջ 108 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Էջ 316 - It is reconciled in policy ; and politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature ; of which the reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part.
Էջ 103 - Of the Passion Caused by the Sublime The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that object which employs it.
Էջ 482 - Be content to bind America by laws of trade; you have always done it. Let this be your reason for binding their trade. Do not burden them by taxes ; you were not used to do so from the beginning. Let this be your reason for not taxing. These are the arguments of states and kingdoms. Leave the rest to the schools; for there only they may be discussed with safety.
Էջ 105 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Էջ 67 - ... a sort of creative power of its own ; either in representing at pleasure the images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses, or in combining those images in a new manner, and according to a different order.
Էջ 105 - When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes. Every one will be sensible of this who considers how greatly night adds to our dread in all cases of danger, and how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect minds which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings.
Էջ 420 - 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.