The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, 第 2 巻C. and J. Rivington, 1766 |
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166 ページ - It is reconciled in policy ; and politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature ; of which the reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part.
396 ページ - They jumped upon him like children on a long absent father. They clung about him as captives about their redeemer. All England, all America, joined in his applause.
327 ページ - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
377 ページ - 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.
322 ページ - When bad men combine, the good must associate ; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
376 ページ - No man can believe, that at this time of day I mean to lean on the venerable memory of a great man, whose loss we deplore in common.
428 ページ - ... fairest of his works. But I know the map of England, as well as the noble lord, or as any other person ; and I know that the way I take is not the road to preferment. My excellent and...
409 ページ - ... or compass. The gentlemen, his particular friends, who with the names of various departments of ministry, were admitted, to seem as if they acted a part under him, with a modesty that becomes all men, and with a confidence in him, which was justified even in its extravagance by his superior abilities, had never in any instance presumed upon any opinion of their own. Deprived of his guiding influence, they were whirled about, the sport of every gust, and easily driven into any port...
317 ページ - Until a confidence in government is re-established, the people ought to be excited to a more strict and detailed attention to the conduct of their representatives. Standards for judging more systematically upon their conduct ought to be settled in the meetings of counties and corporations. Frequent and correct lists of the voters in all important questions ought to be procured.
249 ページ - The laws reach but a very little way. Constitute government how you please, infinitely the greater part of it must depend upon the exercise of the powers which are left at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends upon upon them. Without them, your commonwealth is no better than a scheme upon paper ; and not a living, active, effective constitution.