Memoirs of the right honourable Edmund Burke; or, An impartial review of his private life, his public conduct, his speeches in parliament, and the different productions of his penLee and Hurst, 1798 - 378 من الصفحات |
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... state of decent mediocrity , equally removed from penury and opulence . It was his good fortune to be placed at a very early period under the instruction of a Mr. SHUCKLETON , an amiable and enlightened quaker , who kept a school at ...
... state of decent mediocrity , equally removed from penury and opulence . It was his good fortune to be placed at a very early period under the instruction of a Mr. SHUCKLETON , an amiable and enlightened quaker , who kept a school at ...
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... state will never be fecure , without an abfolute extermination of the papifts . " He has fince fhewn greater kindness for the Roman catholic part of his countrymen : he has even pleaded their cause in a strain of the most perfuafive ...
... state will never be fecure , without an abfolute extermination of the papifts . " He has fince fhewn greater kindness for the Roman catholic part of his countrymen : he has even pleaded their cause in a strain of the most perfuafive ...
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... state produced them berries , in its decay gave them an habitation . The mutual defires of the fexes uniting their bodies and affections , and the children which were the re- fults of these intercourfes , introduced firft the notion of ...
... state produced them berries , in its decay gave them an habitation . The mutual defires of the fexes uniting their bodies and affections , and the children which were the re- fults of these intercourfes , introduced firft the notion of ...
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... states . bear to each other in point of friendship or enmity , and afferts , that the good offices done by one nation to its neighbour , or the mutual returns of kindness and civility between them , fince the earliest period of their ...
... states . bear to each other in point of friendship or enmity , and afferts , that the good offices done by one nation to its neighbour , or the mutual returns of kindness and civility between them , fince the earliest period of their ...
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... states it , amounts to upwards of feventy times the number of fouls this day on the globe . When he comes to draw his ... state of nature , it had been impoffi- ble to find a number of men , fufficient for fuch flaughters , agreed in the ...
... states it , amounts to upwards of feventy times the number of fouls this day on the globe . When he comes to draw his ... state of nature , it had been impoffi- ble to find a number of men , fufficient for fuch flaughters , agreed in the ...
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الصفحة 38 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
الصفحة 220 - But, my lords, who is the man, that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared to authorize and associate to our arms the tomahawk and scalping-knife of the savage; to call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman inhabitant of the woods...
الصفحة 141 - ... some way related to the business that was to be done within it. If he was ambitious, I will say this for him, his ambition was of a noble and generous strain. It was to raise himself not by...
الصفحة 38 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
الصفحة 142 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
الصفحة 98 - ... them in a superior manner did not always preserve, when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape.
الصفحة 98 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the great masters of the renowned ages.
الصفحة 263 - But he has put to hazard his ease, his security, his interest, his power, even his darling popularity, for the benefit of a people whom he has never seen.
الصفحة 38 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot, too cool; for a drudge, disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
الصفحة 104 - The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State, it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake.