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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... irresistible force and elegance . He has risen to no lefs diftinction in the literary than in the political world , and may be faid to have fhone with . B extraor extraordinary luftre in two different hemifpheres . Instead , there- MEMOIRS.
... irresistible force and elegance . He has risen to no lefs diftinction in the literary than in the political world , and may be faid to have fhone with . B extraor extraordinary luftre in two different hemifpheres . Instead , there- MEMOIRS.
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... lefs bloody : that prince cut off at one ftroke 150,000 Romans by a maffacre . In that war SYLLA de- ftroyed 300,000 men at Cheronea . He defeated MITHRIDATES ' army under DORILAUS , and flew 300,000 . This great and un- fortunate C 2 ...
... lefs bloody : that prince cut off at one ftroke 150,000 Romans by a maffacre . In that war SYLLA de- ftroyed 300,000 men at Cheronea . He defeated MITHRIDATES ' army under DORILAUS , and flew 300,000 . This great and un- fortunate C 2 ...
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... lefs glaring effects of modern policy , fuch as cor- ruption , venality , the contempt of honour , the oblivion of all duty to our country , and the most abandoned public prostitution , the writer inveighs against the perversion of ...
... lefs glaring effects of modern policy , fuch as cor- ruption , venality , the contempt of honour , the oblivion of all duty to our country , and the most abandoned public prostitution , the writer inveighs against the perversion of ...
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... lefs confpicuous in the other , and which render the History of MARY one of the most captivating books in our language . Mr. BURKE admired the diverfity of their ta- lents , but did not lofe in that admiration the consciousness of his ...
... lefs confpicuous in the other , and which render the History of MARY one of the most captivating books in our language . Mr. BURKE admired the diverfity of their ta- lents , but did not lofe in that admiration the consciousness of his ...
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... lefs of reproach , that low images and ftrokes of vulgar pleasantry were fometimes found in the exuberance of his enter- taining remarks . Inftead of expreffing an ill - natured disgust at fuch little blemishes , we fhould rather ...
... lefs of reproach , that low images and ftrokes of vulgar pleasantry were fometimes found in the exuberance of his enter- taining remarks . Inftead of expreffing an ill - natured disgust at fuch little blemishes , we fhould rather ...
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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.