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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... genius will by no means admit of the like artifice or method . Its branches are often fo luxuriant and expanfive , that each of them completely fills the eye , and precludes the idea of fecondary importance . There are few characters to ...
... genius will by no means admit of the like artifice or method . Its branches are often fo luxuriant and expanfive , that each of them completely fills the eye , and precludes the idea of fecondary importance . There are few characters to ...
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... genius obfcured by some marks of an overbearing and intolerant spirit . The old quaker often related the following anecdote with tears .. A pamphlet had just been published , written with great virulence , though in a masterly ftyle ...
... genius obfcured by some marks of an overbearing and intolerant spirit . The old quaker often related the following anecdote with tears .. A pamphlet had just been published , written with great virulence , though in a masterly ftyle ...
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... genius were more and more con- firmed . In the fecond year of his refidence there , he obtained a scholarship , which is somewhat similar in point of honour and emolument to the rank of a ftudent at Chrift Church , Oxford . As foon as ...
... genius were more and more con- firmed . In the fecond year of his refidence there , he obtained a scholarship , which is somewhat similar in point of honour and emolument to the rank of a ftudent at Chrift Church , Oxford . As foon as ...
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... . The Mufes heard him with gracious finiles ; and though he wrote in profe , yet it was profe adorned with the choiceft gifts of thofe deities that prefide prefide over works of genius . An " Inquiry into RIGHT HON . EDMUND BURKE , 9.
... . The Mufes heard him with gracious finiles ; and though he wrote in profe , yet it was profe adorned with the choiceft gifts of thofe deities that prefide prefide over works of genius . An " Inquiry into RIGHT HON . EDMUND BURKE , 9.
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Charles M'Cormick. prefide over works of genius . An " Inquiry into the origin of our ideas of the fublime and beautiful " had long engaged his attention , and exercised his pen . It may be confidered as a hive where this Attic bee was ...
Charles M'Cormick. prefide over works of genius . An " Inquiry into the origin of our ideas of the fublime and beautiful " had long engaged his attention , and exercised his pen . It may be confidered as a hive where this Attic bee was ...
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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.