The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His WorksN.H. Whitaker, 1828 - 160 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 86
... vanity and presumption ; in propor- tion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good , in pref- erence to the flattery of knaves . Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be ...
... vanity and presumption ; in propor- tion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good , in pref- erence to the flattery of knaves . Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be ...
الصفحة 144
... vanity in England . As I had good opportunities of knowing his proceedings almost from day to day , he left no doubt on my mind , that he entertained no principle either to influ- ence his heart , or to guide his understand- ing , but ...
... vanity in England . As I had good opportunities of knowing his proceedings almost from day to day , he left no doubt on my mind , that he entertained no principle either to influ- ence his heart , or to guide his understand- ing , but ...
الصفحة 145
... cial independence , this their hero of vanity refuses the just price of common labour , as well as the tribute which opulence owes to genius , and which , when paid , honours the 10 BURKE . 145 which vanity makes even of hypocrisy, ...
... cial independence , this their hero of vanity refuses the just price of common labour , as well as the tribute which opulence owes to genius , and which , when paid , honours the 10 BURKE . 145 which vanity makes even of hypocrisy, ...
الصفحة 146
... Vanity , however , finds its account in re- versing the train of our natural feelings . Thousands admire the sentimental writer ; the affectionate father is hardly known in his parish . Under this philosophic instructer in the ethics of ...
... Vanity , however , finds its account in re- versing the train of our natural feelings . Thousands admire the sentimental writer ; the affectionate father is hardly known in his parish . Under this philosophic instructer in the ethics of ...
الصفحة 156
... tranquillity , all depend on that con- trol of all our appetites and passions , which the ancients designated by the cardinal vir- tue of temperance . VANITY . In a small degree , and conversant in 156 BURKE . TALENTS. ...
... tranquillity , all depend on that con- trol of all our appetites and passions , which the ancients designated by the cardinal vir- tue of temperance . VANITY . In a small degree , and conversant in 156 BURKE . TALENTS. ...
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الصفحة 46 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
الصفحة 87 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
الصفحة 137 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should be frequently thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
الصفحة 92 - ... and paid it with usury, by enlarging their ideas, and by furnishing their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
الصفحة 90 - ... laws are to be supported only by their own terrors, and by the concern which each individual may find in them, from his own private speculations, or can spare to them from his own private interests. In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
الصفحة 112 - 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.
الصفحة 7 - Suppose, Sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing the many virtues which made him one of the most amiable, as he is one of the most fortunate, men of his age, had opened to him in vision, that when in the fourth generation the third prince of the House of Brunswick had sat twelve years on the throne...
الصفحة 90 - Nothing is left which engages the affections on the part of the commonwealth. On the principles of this mechanic philosophy, our institutions can never he imbodied, if I may use the expression, in persons, so as to create in us love, veneration, admiration, or attachment. But that sort of reason which banishes the affections is incapable of filling their place.
الصفحة 90 - These public affections, combined with manners, are required sometimes as supplements, sometimes as correctives, always as aids to law. The precept given by a wise man, as well as a great critic, for the construction of...
الصفحة 80 - Political arrangement, as it is a work for social ends, is to be only wrought by social means. There mind must conspire with mind. Time is required to produce that union of minds which alone can produce all the good we aim at. Our patience will achieve more than our force.