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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... most idle of all things ) to make every part of my conduct agreeable to every one of my constituents . But in fo great a city , and fo greatly divided as this , it is weak to expect it . In fuch a difcordancy of fentiments , it is ...
... most idle of all things ) to make every part of my conduct agreeable to every one of my constituents . But in fo great a city , and fo greatly divided as this , it is weak to expect it . In fuch a difcordancy of fentiments , it is ...
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... most seducing and the most formidable of all powers . No ! human na- ture is not fo formed ; nor fhall we improve the faculties , or better the morals of public men , by our poffeffion of the most infallible receipt in the world for ...
... most seducing and the most formidable of all powers . No ! human na- ture is not fo formed ; nor fhall we improve the faculties , or better the morals of public men , by our poffeffion of the most infallible receipt in the world for ...
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... of the greatest power , every clause , and every word of the largest of those bills , al- most to the very laft day of a very long feffion ; all this time a canvafs in Bristol was as calmly carried 66 carried on as if I were dead . I [ 9 ]
... of the greatest power , every clause , and every word of the largest of those bills , al- most to the very laft day of a very long feffion ; all this time a canvafs in Bristol was as calmly carried 66 carried on as if I were dead . I [ 9 ]
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... most easy and ordinary arts of election , by dinners and visits , by “ How do you do's , " and , My worthy friends , " I was to be quietly moved out of my feat - and pro- mises were made , and engagements entered into , without any ...
... most easy and ordinary arts of election , by dinners and visits , by “ How do you do's , " and , My worthy friends , " I was to be quietly moved out of my feat - and pro- mises were made , and engagements entered into , without any ...
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... most prevalent of all , is Lord Beauchamp's bill . Į mean his bill of last feffion for reforming the law- procefs concerning imprisonment . It is faid , to aggravate the offence , that I treated the petition of this city with contempt ...
... most prevalent of all , is Lord Beauchamp's bill . Į mean his bill of last feffion for reforming the law- procefs concerning imprisonment . It is faid , to aggravate the offence , that I treated the petition of this city with contempt ...
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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.