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 страница |
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... person of a member of parliament is facred ; but his creditors may feize his effects , and not even leave him a ftool to fit upon . During an unwelcome vifit from one of the sheriff's myrmidons , fir G―― found himself much indisposed ...
... person of a member of parliament is facred ; but his creditors may feize his effects , and not even leave him a ftool to fit upon . During an unwelcome vifit from one of the sheriff's myrmidons , fir G―― found himself much indisposed ...
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... persons were whom his lordship intended for fome of the cabinet employments ? His lordship answered , that one in particular was a noble lord of an approved character , and known abilities , who had last year refused the very office now ...
... persons were whom his lordship intended for fome of the cabinet employments ? His lordship answered , that one in particular was a noble lord of an approved character , and known abilities , who had last year refused the very office now ...
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... persons can answer the ends of relief and profit to themselves , they are apt to be careless enough about either the means or the confe quences . " When Mr. BURKE comes to review the schemes laid down by the author of the pamphlet for ...
... persons can answer the ends of relief and profit to themselves , they are apt to be careless enough about either the means or the confe quences . " When Mr. BURKE comes to review the schemes laid down by the author of the pamphlet for ...
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... persons of thofe , whofe fole object was our own peace and profperity . Befides , it would be no finall aggravation of the public mis- fortune , that the difeafe , on fuch an hypothefis , appeared to be without a remedy . " If , " fays ...
... persons of thofe , whofe fole object was our own peace and profperity . Befides , it would be no finall aggravation of the public mis- fortune , that the difeafe , on fuch an hypothefis , appeared to be without a remedy . " If , " fays ...
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... person of whom the party entertained an high opinion . Such a perfon they endeavoured to delude with various pietences . They taught him first to diftruft , and then to quarrel with his friends ;. among whom , by the fame arts , they ...
... person of whom the party entertained an high opinion . Such a perfon they endeavoured to delude with various pietences . They taught him first to diftruft , and then to quarrel with his friends ;. among whom , by the fame arts , they ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 38 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.