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... of your national thanks and praises , you will think me excusable in making its late conduct the subject of my observations . The National Assembly of France has given importance to these gentlemen by adopting BURKE'S REFLECTIONS . 7.
... of your national thanks and praises , you will think me excusable in making its late conduct the subject of my observations . The National Assembly of France has given importance to these gentlemen by adopting BURKE'S REFLECTIONS . 7.
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... given splendour to obscurity , and distinction to undiscerned merit . Until very lately I do not recollect to have heard of this club . I am quite sure that it never occupied a moment of my thoughts , nor , I believe , those of any ...
... given splendour to obscurity , and distinction to undiscerned merit . Until very lately I do not recollect to have heard of this club . I am quite sure that it never occupied a moment of my thoughts , nor , I believe , those of any ...
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... given as good proofs of my attachment to that cause , in the whole course of my public conduct . I think I envy liberty as little as they do , to any other na- tion : but I cannot stand forward , and give praise or blame to any thing ...
... given as good proofs of my attachment to that cause , in the whole course of my public conduct . I think I envy liberty as little as they do , to any other na- tion : but I cannot stand forward , and give praise or blame to any thing ...
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... given to a noble and reverend lay divine , who is supposed high in office in one of our univer- sities , * and to other lay divines " of rank and li- terature , " may be proper and seasonable , though somewhat new . If the noble seekers ...
... given to a noble and reverend lay divine , who is supposed high in office in one of our univer- sities , * and to other lay divines " of rank and li- terature , " may be proper and seasonable , though somewhat new . If the noble seekers ...
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... given in favour of an hereditary succession , and as solemn a renunciation as could be made of the principles by this society imputed to them . " The lords spi- ritual and temporal , and commons , do , in the name of all the people ...
... given in favour of an hereditary succession , and as solemn a renunciation as could be made of the principles by this society imputed to them . " The lords spi- ritual and temporal , and commons , do , in the name of all the people ...
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Strona 125 - partnership in things subservient only to the gross ' animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature : it is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those
Strona 28 - That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself all this guard, and all this accumulation of circumstances, serves to show the spirit of
Strona 125 - the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence;
Strona 126 - the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed place. This law is not subject to the will of those,
Strona 30 - limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject, they provided, " that no pardon under the great seal of England should be. pleadable to an impeachment by the commons in parliament.
Strona 96 - little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords
Strona 116 - amongst us. This disposition still remains, at least in the great body of the people. • " We know, and, what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.* In England we are so convinced of this, that there is no rust • Sit igitur hoc
Strona 73 - have a right to live by that rule; they have a right to justice; as between their fellows, whether their fellows are in politic function or in ordinary occupation. They have a right to the fruits of their industry, and to the means of making their industry fruitful. They have
Strona 98 - and without distinct views, is to be regarded as romance and folly. Regicide, and parricide, and sacrilege, are but fictions of superstition, corrupting jurisprudence by destroying its simplicity. The murder of a king, or a queen, or a bishop, or a father, are only common homicide; and if the people are by any chance,
Strona 162 - of their minds. They must respect that property of which they cannot partake. They must labour to obtain what by labour can be obtained; and when they find, as they commonly do, the success disproportioned to the endeavour, they must be taught their consolation in the final proportions of eternal justice. Of this consolation, whoever