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Edmund Burke.
CIVIL WARS , ' C IVIL wars strike deepest of all into the manners of a people . They vitiate their politics , they corrupt their morals , they pervert even the natural taste and relish of equity and justice . By teaching vis to consider our fellow-citizens in an hostile light , the whole body of our nation becomes gradually less dear to us : the very names of
affection and kindred , which were the bond of charity whilst we agreed , become new incentives to hatred and rage , when the communion of our country is dissolved , We may flatter ourselves that we shall not fall into this misfortune , but we have no charter of exemption , that I know of , from the ordinary frailties of our nature . '
CHARACTERS INVESTED IN THE SOVEREIGN . SPEAKIJTI . ofthe characters with which the Sovereign is invested in different parts of South-Britain , he says , ' the monarchy is divided into five several distinct principalities , besides the supreme . As in the itinerant exhibitions of the stage , they are obliged to throw a variety of parts on their chief performer ; so our Sovereign condescends
himself to act , not only the principal but the subordinate parts . — Cross a brook , and you lose the King of England ; but ; , ou have some comfort in coming again under his Majesty , though shorn < . f his beams , atrd no more than Prince of Wales . Go to the north , and you find him dwindled to a Duke of Lancaster . Turn to the west of that north , and he pops upon you in the humble character of
Earl of Chester . Travel a few miles on , the Earl of Chester disappears , and the King surprises you again as Count Palatine of Lancaster . You find him once more in his incognito , and he is Duke of Cornwall . So that quite fatigued and satiated with this dull variety , you are infinitely refreshed when you return to the sphere of his proper splendour , and behold your amiable Sovereign in his true , simple , undisguised , native character of Majestj . '
REFORM BILL . BURKE introduces his bill for the retrenchment of unnecessary expence in the different departments of Government with the following observations : 'I feel that I engage in a business in itself most ungracious . I krrow that ail . parsimony is of a quality approaching to unkinduess : and that ( on some person or other ) every reform must operate as a sort of punishment : indeed the whole class of the
severe and restrictive virtues are at a market almost too high for humanity ; what is worse , there are very few of those virtues which are not capable of being imitated , and even outdone in many of their most striking effects , by the worst of vices . Malignity and envy will carve much more deeply , and finish much more sharp !}' , , in the work of retrenchmentthan frugality and providence . 1 do not ,
, therefore , wonder that gentlemen have kept away from such a task , as well from good-nature as from prudence . Private feeling might , indeed , be overborne by legislative reason ; and a man of longsi ghted and strong-nerved humanity mig ht bring himself , not so much fo consider from whom he / takes a superfluous enjoyment , as for
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Edmund Burke.
CIVIL WARS , ' C IVIL wars strike deepest of all into the manners of a people . They vitiate their politics , they corrupt their morals , they pervert even the natural taste and relish of equity and justice . By teaching vis to consider our fellow-citizens in an hostile light , the whole body of our nation becomes gradually less dear to us : the very names of
affection and kindred , which were the bond of charity whilst we agreed , become new incentives to hatred and rage , when the communion of our country is dissolved , We may flatter ourselves that we shall not fall into this misfortune , but we have no charter of exemption , that I know of , from the ordinary frailties of our nature . '
CHARACTERS INVESTED IN THE SOVEREIGN . SPEAKIJTI . ofthe characters with which the Sovereign is invested in different parts of South-Britain , he says , ' the monarchy is divided into five several distinct principalities , besides the supreme . As in the itinerant exhibitions of the stage , they are obliged to throw a variety of parts on their chief performer ; so our Sovereign condescends
himself to act , not only the principal but the subordinate parts . — Cross a brook , and you lose the King of England ; but ; , ou have some comfort in coming again under his Majesty , though shorn < . f his beams , atrd no more than Prince of Wales . Go to the north , and you find him dwindled to a Duke of Lancaster . Turn to the west of that north , and he pops upon you in the humble character of
Earl of Chester . Travel a few miles on , the Earl of Chester disappears , and the King surprises you again as Count Palatine of Lancaster . You find him once more in his incognito , and he is Duke of Cornwall . So that quite fatigued and satiated with this dull variety , you are infinitely refreshed when you return to the sphere of his proper splendour , and behold your amiable Sovereign in his true , simple , undisguised , native character of Majestj . '
REFORM BILL . BURKE introduces his bill for the retrenchment of unnecessary expence in the different departments of Government with the following observations : 'I feel that I engage in a business in itself most ungracious . I krrow that ail . parsimony is of a quality approaching to unkinduess : and that ( on some person or other ) every reform must operate as a sort of punishment : indeed the whole class of the
severe and restrictive virtues are at a market almost too high for humanity ; what is worse , there are very few of those virtues which are not capable of being imitated , and even outdone in many of their most striking effects , by the worst of vices . Malignity and envy will carve much more deeply , and finish much more sharp !}' , , in the work of retrenchmentthan frugality and providence . 1 do not ,
, therefore , wonder that gentlemen have kept away from such a task , as well from good-nature as from prudence . Private feeling might , indeed , be overborne by legislative reason ; and a man of longsi ghted and strong-nerved humanity mig ht bring himself , not so much fo consider from whom he / takes a superfluous enjoyment , as for