The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)Burke, Edmund
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
Burke, Edmund
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820; Political science -- Early works to 1800
Hypæthra of the Greeks, what, vii. 187.
Imagination, what, i. 86.
no bounds to men's passions when they are under its influence, iv. 192.
Imitation, one of the passions belonging to society, i. 122.
its source and use, i. 122.
Impeachment, the great guardian of the purity of the constitution, i. 495.
Impey, Sir Elijah, (Chief Justice of Bengal,) accused of the
official murder of Nundcomar, x. 218.
resolution of the House of Commons concerning this accusation, x. 311.
serves as bearer of Mr. Hastings's order to seize the
treasures of the Begums of Oude, xii. 32.
acts as commissioner to seek affidavits against the Begums, xii. 82.
Indecision, the natural accomplice of violence, iv. 190.
Indemnification, one of the requisites of a good peace, i. 295.
Indemnity and oblivion, acts of, their probable effects as
means of reconciling France to a monarchy, iv. 460.
Independence of mind, always more or less influenced by
independence of fortune, vii. 78.
India, the people of, classification of them, ix. 376; xi. 207.
Indians, British alliances with them in the American war denounced,
vi. 171.
Indifference, pleasure, and pain, viewed in relation to each
other, as states of the mind, i. 103.
Indolence, the prevailing characteristic of the class of
elegant, weak-minded people, vii. 147.
Industry, effect of the Irish Popery laws in discouraging it,
vi. 351.
Infinite, the artificial, consists in succession and uniformity
of parts, i. 149, 220.
Infinity, a source of the sublime, i. 148.
in agreeable images, a cause of pleasure, i. 153.
Influence of the crown, operation of it, i. 444.
Inheritance, value of this principle in the British constitution, iii. 274.
Injury is quick and rapid, justice slow, x. 151; xi. 181.
Innocence, contrasted with guilt, ix. 371.
Insolvency, who ought to suffer in a case of, iii. 381.
Institutions, ancient juridical ones in England, intended to
retard the headlong course of violence and oppression, ii. 193.
in political institutions, soundness of the materials of
more importance than the fashion of the work, v. 120.
how, when revolutionized, to be reëstablished, v. 126.
benefits of institution, properly conditional, vii. 15.
Interest of a debt, not the principal, distresses a nation, i. 329.
Intolerance, mischief of it, vii. 34.
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