Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke, 第 2 巻1804 |
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... passions , will often ferment into violent heats , so as greatly to disorder all public business . What must be the con- sequence , when the very distemper is made the basis of the constitution ; and the original weakness of human ...
... passions , will often ferment into violent heats , so as greatly to disorder all public business . What must be the con- sequence , when the very distemper is made the basis of the constitution ; and the original weakness of human ...
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... passions , though of another kind , and which are infinitely more likely to carry them out of the path of their duty . They are of a tame , timid , languid , inert temper wherever the welfare of others is concerned . In such causes , as ...
... passions , though of another kind , and which are infinitely more likely to carry them out of the path of their duty . They are of a tame , timid , languid , inert temper wherever the welfare of others is concerned . In such causes , as ...
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... passions , their reason is dis- turbed ; their views become vast and perplexed ; to others inexplicable ; to themselves uncertain . They find , on all sides , bounds to their unprincipled am- bition in any fixed order of things . But in ...
... passions , their reason is dis- turbed ; their views become vast and perplexed ; to others inexplicable ; to themselves uncertain . They find , on all sides , bounds to their unprincipled am- bition in any fixed order of things . But in ...
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... passions when they act from feeling ; none when they are under the influence of imagination . Remove a grievance , and when men act from feeling , you go a great way towards quieting a commotion . But the good or bad conduct of a ...
... passions when they act from feeling ; none when they are under the influence of imagination . Remove a grievance , and when men act from feeling , you go a great way towards quieting a commotion . But the good or bad conduct of a ...
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... passions , in the sharp conflict of so many wits , and tempers , and characters , in the agitation of such mighty questions , in the discussion of such vast and ponderous interests , without seeing any one sort of men , whose character ...
... passions , in the sharp conflict of so many wits , and tempers , and characters , in the agitation of such mighty questions , in the discussion of such vast and ponderous interests , without seeing any one sort of men , whose character ...
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91 ページ - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
105 ページ - The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes ; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. Th6 rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned. The rights of men in governments are their advantages ; and these are often in balances between differences of good ; in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes, between evil and evil.
80 ページ - The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science; because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate...
41 ページ - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle...
75 ページ - It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigour and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth ; so to be patriots, as not to forget we are gentlemen.
101 ページ - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.
26 ページ - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.
103 ページ - ... inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection. This can only be done by a power out of themselves ; and not, in the exercise of its function, subject to that will and to those passions which it is its office to bridle and sub102 due. In this sense the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.
139 ページ - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of...