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 sider |
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... cause in a strain of the most perfuafive eloquence : yet they do not in general believe that this proceeds from any real change in his original principles , --- but from an affectation of liberality towards them , while he wished to ...
... cause in a strain of the most perfuafive eloquence : yet they do not in general believe that this proceeds from any real change in his original principles , --- but from an affectation of liberality towards them , while he wished to ...
Side 9
... cause to repent his having fixed his affections on fo worthy an object . But Mr. BURKE's attachment to his intended bride did not prevent him from renewing his addreffes to nine other ladies , of whom he had before been the zealous ...
... cause to repent his having fixed his affections on fo worthy an object . But Mr. BURKE's attachment to his intended bride did not prevent him from renewing his addreffes to nine other ladies , of whom he had before been the zealous ...
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... cause , or give a glofs to ingenious falfhoods , than to establish a doubtful truth by folid argument . In this specimen of the abuse of reafon , as he calls it , he takes a glance at the condition of mankind in a ftate of nature ...
... cause , or give a glofs to ingenious falfhoods , than to establish a doubtful truth by folid argument . In this specimen of the abuse of reafon , as he calls it , he takes a glance at the condition of mankind in a ftate of nature ...
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... caused in both , really astonishes beyond expref- fion , when it is nakedly confidered , and those matters which are apt to divert our attention from it , the characters , actions , and defigns of the perfons concerned , are not taken ...
... caused in both , really astonishes beyond expref- fion , when it is nakedly confidered , and those matters which are apt to divert our attention from it , the characters , actions , and defigns of the perfons concerned , are not taken ...
Side 32
... causes of the degeneracy of our modern nobility , Mr. Burke pointed out the profligate , unnerving debauchery of high life , adding , " that it was no wonder the iffue of the marriage - bed fhould be puny and degenerate , when children ...
... causes of the degeneracy of our modern nobility , Mr. Burke pointed out the profligate , unnerving debauchery of high life , adding , " that it was no wonder the iffue of the marriage - bed fhould be puny and degenerate , when children ...
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Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 38 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.