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 |
THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS | 433 |
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Page 137 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice...
Page 81 - I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty, or those faculties of the mind which are affected with, or which form a judgment of the works of imagination and the elegant arts.
Page 127 - ... whilst, referring to him whatever we find of right or good or fair in ourselves, discovering his strength and wisdom even in our own weakness and imperfection, honouring them where we discover them clearly, and adoring their profundity where we are lost in our search, we may be inquisitive without impertinence, and elevated without pride ; we may be admitted, if I may dare to say so, into the counsels of the Almighty by a consideration of his works. The...
Page 118 - I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others...
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 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 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 135 - 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 132 - Almost all the heathen temples were dark. Even in the barbarous temples of the Americans at this day, they keep their idol in a dark part of the hut, which is consecrated to his worship. For this purpose too the druids performed all their ceremonies in the bosom of the darkest woods, and in the shade of the oldest and most spreading oaks.