The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].1792 |
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... principle ever to fettle on the true point of quiet . It difcovers every day fome craving want in a body , which really wants but little . It every day in- vents fome new artificial rule to guide that nature which , if left to itself ...
... principle ever to fettle on the true point of quiet . It difcovers every day fome craving want in a body , which really wants but little . It every day in- vents fome new artificial rule to guide that nature which , if left to itself ...
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... principle of ac- tion , but a blind obedience to the paffions of their ruler . The next perfonage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Simiramis : for we have no particulars of of Ninus , but that he made immenfe and ...
... principle of ac- tion , but a blind obedience to the paffions of their ruler . The next perfonage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Simiramis : for we have no particulars of of Ninus , but that he made immenfe and ...
第 30 頁
... principle . It has been re- marked , that there is no prince fo bad , whofe favourites and ministers are not worse . There is hardly any prince without a favourite , 66 3 a favourite , by whom he is governed in as 30 A VINDICATION OF.
... principle . It has been re- marked , that there is no prince fo bad , whofe favourites and ministers are not worse . There is hardly any prince without a favourite , 66 3 a favourite , by whom he is governed in as 30 A VINDICATION OF.
第 31 頁
... principle of honeft pride , all sense of the dignity of their nature , is loft in their flavery . The day , fays Homer , which makes a man a flave , takes away half his worth ; and in fact , he lofes every impulfe to action , but that ...
... principle of honeft pride , all sense of the dignity of their nature , is loft in their flavery . The day , fays Homer , which makes a man a flave , takes away half his worth ; and in fact , he lofes every impulfe to action , but that ...
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... principle . The giddy people , whom we have now under confideration , being elated with fome flashes of success , which they owed to nothing less than any merit of their own , began to tyrannize over their equals , who had affociated ...
... principle . The giddy people , whom we have now under confideration , being elated with fome flashes of success , which they owed to nothing less than any merit of their own , began to tyrannize over their equals , who had affociated ...
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第 76 頁 - ... a sort of creative power of its own; either in representing at pleasure the images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses, or in combining those images in a new manner, and according to a different order.
第 564 頁 - ... patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
第 99 頁 - Without all doubt, the torments which we may be made to suffer are much greater in their effect on the body and mind, than any pleasures which the most learned voluptuary could suggest, or than the liveliest imagination, and the most sound and exquisitely sensible body, could enjoy.
第 115 頁 - ... as for those called critics, they have generally sought the rule of the arts in the wrong place; they sought it among poems, pictures, engravings, statues, and buildings. But art can never give the rules that make an art. This is, I believe, the reason why artists in general, and poets principally, have been confined in so narrow a circle: they have been rather imitators of one another than of nature...
第 112 頁 - Now whatever either on good or upon bad grounds tends to raise a man in his own opinion, produces a sort of swelling and triumph that is extremely grateful to the human mind; and this swelling is never more perceived, nor operates with more force, than when without danger we are conversant with terrible objects, the mind always claiming to itself some part of the dignity and importance of the things which it contemplates.
第 574 頁 - Sir, let the gentlemen on the other side call forth all their ability, let the best of them get up and tell me, what one character of liberty the Americans have, and what one brand of slavery they are free from, if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce, and at the same time are made packhorses of every tax you choose to impose, without the least share in granting them. When they bear the...
第 523 頁 - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him. a slave.
第 105 頁 - The satisfaction has been commonly attributed, first, to the comfort we receive in considering that so melancholy a story...
第 192 頁 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
第 122 頁 - IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination. If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landscape, I present a very clear idea of those objects; but...