The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 478 pages of information about The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12).

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 478 pages of information about The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12).

Humility, the basis of the Christian system, iv. 26.
  humanity cannot be degraded by it, v. 253.

Husbandry, classification of laborers in, v. 144.

Hyder Ali Khan, scheme of the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot
    to extirpate him, iii. 61.
  dreadful devastation of the Carnatic by him, iii. 83.

Hypaethra 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 reestablished, v. 126.
  benefits of institution, properly conditional, vii. 15.

Interest of a debt, not the principal, distresses a nation, i. 329.

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