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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... sense was either perverted or obscured , are now rectified . Two or three small in- sertions have also been made from a quarto copy cor- rected by Mr. Burke himself . From the same source something more has been drawn in the shape of ...
... sense was either perverted or obscured , are now rectified . Two or three small in- sertions have also been made from a quarto copy cor- rected by Mr. Burke himself . From the same source something more has been drawn in the shape of ...
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... sense of its ow weakness , of its subordinate rank in the creation , and of the extreme danger of letting the imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it would ...
... sense of its ow weakness , of its subordinate rank in the creation , and of the extreme danger of letting the imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it would ...
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... sense of the dignity of their nature , is lost in their slavery . The day , says Homer , which makes a man a slave , takes away half his worth ; and , in fact , he loses every impulse to action , but that low and base one of fear . In ...
... sense of the dignity of their nature , is lost in their slavery . The day , says Homer , which makes a man a slave , takes away half his worth ; and , in fact , he loses every impulse to action , but that low and base one of fear . In ...
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... sense of feeling ; the weight of tyranny at last becomes insupportable ; but the remedy is not so easy : in general , the only remedy by which they attempt to cure the tyranny is to change the tyrant . This is , and always was , the ...
... sense of feeling ; the weight of tyranny at last becomes insupportable ; but the remedy is not so easy : in general , the only remedy by which they attempt to cure the tyranny is to change the tyrant . This is , and always was , the ...
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... sense and interpretation of these laws . Thus we were brought back to our old incertitude . New laws were made to expound the old ; and new diffi- culties arose upon the new laws ; as words multiplied , opportunities of cavilling upon ...
... sense and interpretation of these laws . Thus we were brought back to our old incertitude . New laws were made to expound the old ; and new diffi- culties arose upon the new laws ; as words multiplied , opportunities of cavilling upon ...
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.