The Writings and Speeches of Edmund BurkeCosimo, Inc., 2008 M01 1 - 572 pages This 12-volume set contains the complete life works of EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797), Irish political writer and statesman. Educated at a Quaker boarding school and at Trinity College in Dublin, Burke's eloquence gained him a high position in Britain's Whig party, and he was active in public life. He supported limitations on the power of the monarch and believed that the British people should have a greater say in their government. In general, Burke spoke out against the persecutions perpetuated by the British Empire on its colonies, including America, Ireland, and India. Burke's speeches and writings influenced the great thinkers of his day, including America's Founding Fathers. In Volume I, readers will find: . "A Vindication of Natural Society" . "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" . "A Short Account of a Late Short Administration" . "The Present State of the Nation" . "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent" |
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... less popular description , which he designed for private circulation in quarters where he supposed they might produce most benefit to the community , but which , with some other papers , have been printed since his death , from copies ...
... less popular description , which he designed for private circulation in quarters where he supposed they might produce most benefit to the community , but which , with some other papers , have been printed since his death , from copies ...
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... was made . You will give a glance at the whole , and you will agree with me , that to form this hero no less than twelve hundred thousand lives must have been sacrificed ; but no sooner had 18 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... was made . You will give a glance at the whole , and you will agree with me , that to form this hero no less than twelve hundred thousand lives must have been sacrificed ; but no sooner had 18 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
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... less than three millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government was controverted between the republican and tyrannical parties , and the ...
... less than three millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government was controverted between the republican and tyrannical parties , and the ...
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... less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very small part , of the havoc caused by the Roman ambition . The war with Mithridates was very little less bloody ; that prince cut off at one stroke ...
... less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very small part , of the havoc caused by the Roman ambition . The war with Mithridates was very little less bloody ; that prince cut off at one stroke ...
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... less than two millions of that people . I say nothing of the loppings made from that stock whilst it stood ; nor from the suckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if , in this inconsider- able part of the globe , such a ...
... less than two millions of that people . I say nothing of the loppings made from that stock whilst it stood ; nor from the suckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if , in this inconsider- able part of the globe , such a ...
Contents
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A SHORT ACCOUNT OF A LATE SHORT ADMINISTRATION | 263 |
OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION INTITULED THE | 269 |
263 | 288 |
THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS | 433 |
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Page 135 - Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 203 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Page 135 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 140 - Will he make many supplications unto thee? Will he speak soft words unto thee? Will he make a covenant with thee? Wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Page 111 - But as pain is stronger in its operation than pleasure, so death is in general a much more affecting idea than pain; because there are very few pains, however exquisite, which are not preferred to death: nay, what generally makes pain itself, if I may say so, more painful, is, that it is considered as an emissary of this king of terrors. When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances, and with certain modifications,...
Page 129 - I measure it by no other standard than itself. The true standard of the arts is in every man's power; and an easy observation of the most common, sometimes of the meanest things in nature, will give the truest lights, where the greatest sagacity and industry that slights such observation must leave us in the dark, or, what is worse, amuse and mislead us by false lights.
Page 133 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either : black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 144 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; 8.
Page 130 - In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that object which employs it. Hence arises the great power of the sublime, that far from being produced by them, it anticipates our reasonings, and hurries us on by an irresistible force.
Page 155 - Glittering in golden coats, like images, As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer, Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.