The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His WorksN.H. Whitaker, 1828 - 160页 |
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第14页
... understandings , and to possess the virtues of diligence , or- der , constancy , and regularity , and to have cultivated an habitual regard to commuta- tive justice these are the circumstances of men , that form what I should call a nat ...
... understandings , and to possess the virtues of diligence , or- der , constancy , and regularity , and to have cultivated an habitual regard to commuta- tive justice these are the circumstances of men , that form what I should call a nat ...
第15页
... understanding bestows design and system . The whole man moves under the discipline of his opinions . Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm . When any thing concerning it becomes an object of much meditation , it ...
... understanding bestows design and system . The whole man moves under the discipline of his opinions . Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm . When any thing concerning it becomes an object of much meditation , it ...
第18页
... of the professor , rather than the principles of the science . He ought , above all , to be cautious in recommending any writer who has carried marks of a derang- ed understanding 18 BURKE . and litigious nature sets them to equivo- ...
... of the professor , rather than the principles of the science . He ought , above all , to be cautious in recommending any writer who has carried marks of a derang- ed understanding 18 BURKE . and litigious nature sets them to equivo- ...
第19页
... understanding ; for where there is no sound reason , there can be no real virtue ; and madness is ever vicious and malignant . CHANGE . We must all obey the great law of change . It is the most powerful law of nature , and the means ...
... understanding ; for where there is no sound reason , there can be no real virtue ; and madness is ever vicious and malignant . CHANGE . We must all obey the great law of change . It is the most powerful law of nature , and the means ...
第25页
... understanding for such a task , it is the de- generate fondness for tricking short cuts , and little fallacious facilities , that has in so many parts of the world created govern- ments with arbitrary powers . DISCONTENTS . When men ...
... understanding for such a task , it is the de- generate fondness for tricking short cuts , and little fallacious facilities , that has in so many parts of the world created govern- ments with arbitrary powers . DISCONTENTS . When men ...
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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.