The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His WorksN.H. Whitaker, 1828 - 160页 |
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... The sacred duty of an adviser ( one of the most invio- lable that exists ) would lead me , towards a real enemy , to act as if my best friend were the party concerned . AMBITION . The same sun which gilds all nature , BURKE . 5.
... The sacred duty of an adviser ( one of the most invio- lable that exists ) would lead me , towards a real enemy , to act as if my best friend were the party concerned . AMBITION . The same sun which gilds all nature , BURKE . 5.
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... exist , but upon the flattering and most dangerous of all principles , that of mending what is well . Gradually they are habitu- ated to other company ; and a change in their habitude soon makes a way for a change in their opinions ...
... exist , but upon the flattering and most dangerous of all principles , that of mending what is well . Gradually they are habitu- ated to other company ; and a change in their habitude soon makes a way for a change in their opinions ...
第31页
... exists , wise to form , and potent to en- force , the moral law , there is no sanction to any contract , virtual or even actual , against the will of prevalent power . On that hypothesis , let any set of men be strong enough to set ...
... exists , wise to form , and potent to en- force , the moral law , there is no sanction to any contract , virtual or even actual , against the will of prevalent power . On that hypothesis , let any set of men be strong enough to set ...
第45页
... exists for honour , un- der the burthen of temporary reproach , He is doing indeed a great good ; such as rarely falls ... exist in that father of his country . Henry the Fourth wished that he might live to see a fowl in the pot of every ...
... exists for honour , un- der the burthen of temporary reproach , He is doing indeed a great good ; such as rarely falls ... exist in that father of his country . Henry the Fourth wished that he might live to see a fowl in the pot of every ...
第59页
... exist in the community , in some hands , and under some appellation . Wise men will apply their remedies to vices , not to names ; to the causes of evil which are permanent , not to the occasional organs by which they act , and the ...
... exist in the community , in some hands , and under some appellation . Wise men will apply their remedies to vices , not to names ; to the causes of evil which are permanent , not to the occasional organs by which they act , and the ...
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第46页 - 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.
第87页 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
第137页 - 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.
第92页 - ... 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.
第90页 - ... 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.
第112页 - 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.
第7页 - 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...
第90页 - 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.
第90页 - 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...
第80页 - 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.