A Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. at the Guildhall, in Bristol: Previous to the Late Election in that City Upon Certain Points Relative to His Parliamentary ConductJ. Dodsley, 1780 - 68 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 32
... Examples of this are many and affecting . Some of them are known by a friend who stands near me in this hall . It is but fix or feven years fince a clergyman of the name of Malony , a man man of morals , neither guilty nor accused of ...
... Examples of this are many and affecting . Some of them are known by a friend who stands near me in this hall . It is but fix or feven years fince a clergyman of the name of Malony , a man man of morals , neither guilty nor accused of ...
الصفحة 33
... example ) the ftrict rule of their artificial duty by the higher obligation of their confcience , did not constantly throw every difficulty in the way of fuch informers . But fo ineffectual is the power of legal evasion against legal ...
... example ) the ftrict rule of their artificial duty by the higher obligation of their confcience , did not constantly throw every difficulty in the way of fuch informers . But fo ineffectual is the power of legal evasion against legal ...
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... example . It is certainly true , that no law of this country ever met with fuch univerfal ap- plause abroad , or was fo likely to produce the perfection of that tolerating fpirit , which , as I ob- served , has been long gaining ground ...
... example . It is certainly true , that no law of this country ever met with fuch univerfal ap- plause abroad , or was fo likely to produce the perfection of that tolerating fpirit , which , as I ob- served , has been long gaining ground ...
الصفحة 52
... example . For , Gentlemen , it is proper you fhould all know what infamy we escaped by re- fufing that repeal , for a refufal of which , it feems , I , among others , ftand fomewhere or other accufed . When we took away , on the motives ...
... example . For , Gentlemen , it is proper you fhould all know what infamy we escaped by re- fufing that repeal , for a refufal of which , it feems , I , among others , ftand fomewhere or other accufed . When we took away , on the motives ...
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... the mere circumftance of its vicinity , had been , and in a degree always must be , an object of our vigilance , either with regard to her actual power , or to her influence 1 influence and example . As to the former , [ 8 ]
... the mere circumftance of its vicinity , had been , and in a degree always must be , an object of our vigilance , either with regard to her actual power , or to her influence 1 influence and example . As to the former , [ 8 ]
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الصفحة 64 - No! the charges against me are all of one kind, that I have pushed the principles of general justice and benevolence too far; further than a cautious policy would warrant; and further than the opinions of many would go along with me. — In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress — I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted.
الصفحة 23 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
الصفحة 23 - ... and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity.
الصفحة 27 - Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool. As little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts by imposing on the understandings, of the people. At every step of my progress in life, (for in every step was I traversed and opposed,) and at every turnpike I met, I was...
الصفحة 63 - If I have had my share in any measure giving quiet to private property and private conscience ; if by my vote I have aided in securing to families the best possession, peace ; if I have joined in reconciling kings to their subjects, and subjects to their prince ; if I have assisted to loosen the foreign holdings of the citizen, and taught him to look for his protection to the laws of his country, and for his comfort to the...
الصفحة 3 - ... in men of business, a degenerate and inglorious sloth, has made him flag and languish in his course ? This is the object of our inquiry.
الصفحة 56 - I have no idea of a liberty unconnected with honesty and justice. Nor do I believe, that any good constitutions of government or of freedom, can find it necessary for their security to doom any part of the people to a permanent slavery.
الصفحة 52 - ... rights; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order, for every kind and every quality of property and of dignity...
الصفحة 67 - Reafon, would he fkip and play ,? " Pleas'd to the laft, he crops the flow'ry " food, " And licks the hand juft rais'd to fhed his
الصفحة 49 - ... world. This is the appetite but of a few. It is a luxury, it is a privilege, it is an indulgence for those who are at their ease. But we are all of us made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink from pain and poverty and disease. It is an instinct; and under the direction of reason, instinct is always in the right.