Tag Archives: Edmund Burke

The Fruits of Compromise

Posted on October 5, 2019 by cwny

There is a courageous wisdom: there is also a false reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear. Under misfortunes it often happens that the nerves of the understanding are so relaxed, the pressing peril of the hour … Continue reading →

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The Great Denial

Posted on August 10, 2019 by cwny

Of a ‘people’ all are members who regard themselves as such, find their mother-tongue sounds sweetest and their fatherland love much; All the rest like goblins evil turn their backs upon the people, bar themselves from kindred tie and their … Continue reading →

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The Image of the Beast Shall Die

Posted on July 13, 2019 by cwny

His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words … Continue reading →

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The Bowstrings of the Spirit

Posted on June 22, 2019 by cwny

It was a dry cold night, and the wind blew keenly, and the frost was white and hard. A man would die to-night of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and considered … Continue reading →

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Breaking Satan’s Rules

Posted on June 1, 2019 by cwny

This circumstance assures some degree of permanence to the power of those, whom we know to be permanently our rancourous and implacable enemies. But to those very enemies, who have sworn our destruction, we have ourselves given a further and … Continue reading →

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That Other Realm

Posted on May 18, 2019 by cwny

A kind providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that … Continue reading →

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The Wheel of Fire

Posted on May 10, 2019 by cwny

You do me wrong to take me out o’ th’ grave. Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead –King Lear There is a … Continue reading →

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The Parable of Europe

Posted on May 4, 2019 by cwny

This world is a parable—the habitation of symbols—the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape. May the blessed second-sight be mine—to recognise under these beautiful forms of earth the Angels who wear them; for I am sure we … Continue reading →

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The Darkness Deepens

Posted on April 21, 2019 by cwny

Please see To My Readers But let us take care. The moral sentiments, so nearly connected with early prejudice as to be almost one and the same thing, will assuredly not live long under a discipline, which has for its … Continue reading →

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