Works, Volume 3R. Cross, 1792 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
८८ abſolute abuſes affembly almoſt anſwer antient authority becauſe beſt Britiſh Burke buſineſs cafe caſe cauſe church circumſtances civil compoſe confideration confidered confiſcation conſequences conſtitution courſe crown deſcription deſigns diſpoſed diſpoſition England Engliſh eſtabliſhed eſtates evil exerciſe exiſt falſe fame favour firſt fome France fuch fuffer fure honour houſe intereſt itſelf juſt king laſt legiſlators leſs liberty meaſure ment mind minifter miſchief monarchy moral moſt muſt national aſſembly nature neceffity neceſſary never obſerve occafion opinion parliament perſons pleaſure political poſitive poſſible preſent preſerve principles purpoſes queſtion reaſon repreſentation repreſentative reſiſtance reſpect revolution ſame ſay ſcheme ſecurity ſee ſeems ſenſe ſentiments ſerve ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhare ſhew ſhould ſince ſituation ſociety ſome ſomething ſpeak ſpecies ſpeculations ſpirit ſtand ſtate ſtatutes ſtill ſubject ſuch ſupport ſuppoſe ſyſtem themſelves theſe thing thoſe tion ufurpation uſe whigs whilft whole whoſe wiſhed worſe
Fréquemment cités
Page 111 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Page 93 - The nature of man is intricate; the objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity ; and therefore no simple disposition or direction of power can be suitable either to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions, I am at no loss to decide that the artificers are grossly ignorant of their trade, or totally negligent of their duty.
Page 136 - It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection.
Page 95 - Sir, I never liked this continual talk of resistance and revolution, or the practice of making the extreme medicine of the constitution its daily bread.
Page 135 - By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that, by their poisonous weeds and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life.
Page 445 - ... contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance, the usurpation cannot alter the right of things. Sovereignty, as a matter of right, appertains to the Nation only, and not to any individual ; and a Nation has at all times...
Page 58 - You. will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Page 97 - This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man, that they have totally forgot his nature. Without opening one new avenue to the understanding, they have succeeded in stopping up those that lead to the heart. They have perverted in themselves, and in those that attend to them, all the well-placed sympathies of the human breast.
Page 94 - ... infinitely captivating. In effect each would answer its single end much more perfectly than the more complex is able to attain all its complex purposes. But it is better that the whole should be imperfectly and anomalously answered than that, while some parts are provided for with great exactness, others might be totally neglected, or perhaps materially injured, by the over-care of a favourite member.
Page 134 - By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways, as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.