Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke, 第 1 卷1804 |
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... wise prejudice we are taught to look with horrour on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces , and put him into the kettle of magicians , in hopes that by their poison- ous weeds , and ...
... wise prejudice we are taught to look with horrour on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces , and put him into the kettle of magicians , in hopes that by their poison- ous weeds , and ...
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... wise to entrust that great fundamental interest of the whole to what they trust no part of their civil or military public service , that is , to the unsteady and precarious contribution of individuals . They go further . They certainly ...
... wise to entrust that great fundamental interest of the whole to what they trust no part of their civil or military public service , that is , to the unsteady and precarious contribution of individuals . They go further . They certainly ...
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... wise and virtuous counsels of the prince , the most completely arbitrary power that has ever appeared on earth . This is to play a most desperate game . CLERGY OF FRANCE . WHEN my occasions took me into France , towards the close of the ...
... wise and virtuous counsels of the prince , the most completely arbitrary power that has ever appeared on earth . This is to play a most desperate game . CLERGY OF FRANCE . WHEN my occasions took me into France , towards the close of the ...
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... wise and reflecting minds ; but it is of too high an order of excellence to be adapted to those which are common . It takes in too many views , it makes too many combinations , to be so much as comprehended by shallow and superficial ...
... wise and reflecting minds ; but it is of too high an order of excellence to be adapted to those which are common . It takes in too many views , it makes too many combinations , to be so much as comprehended by shallow and superficial ...
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... wise speculation , in the lurking holes of a foreign land , into which ( in a common ruin ) they are driven to hide their heads amongst the innocent victims of their madness , they are at this very hour , as busy in the confection of ...
... wise speculation , in the lurking holes of a foreign land , into which ( in a common ruin ) they are driven to hide their heads amongst the innocent victims of their madness , they are at this very hour , as busy in the confection of ...
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第181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182页 - All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off.
第144页 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
第144页 - Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
第149页 - But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and, • what sort of reason is that, in which the determination...
第126页 - It is, besides, a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support any given part of our constitution ; or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I had not altogether tired you, give you very striking and convincing instances of it.
第143页 - You will observe that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity — as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
第53页 - Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource : for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left.
第186页 - Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them.
第106页 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.