J. Morley

Cited as J. Morley. — 17 quotations

The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse.

The bulk of the people must labor, Burke told them, “to obtain what by labor can be obtained.”

Pitt had been disgraced and the old Duke of Newcastle dismissed.

We have spoken of the dislike of these excellent women for Sheridan and Fox.

Burke devoted himself to this duty with a fervid assiduity that has not often been exampled, and has never been surpassed.

The Parliament . . . now approaching the expiry of its legal term.

The flummery of modern criticism.

And then suddenly front the changed reality.

The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove.

His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time.

To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creatuure revolted his conscience and offended his reason.

Voltaire hardly left a single corner of the field entirely unexplored in science, poetry, history, philosophy.

It was upon an Indian bill that the late ministry had made shipwreck.

In consequence of their greater command of specious expression.

The provisional and suspensive attitude.

In fine images, in sustention, in irony, they surpass anything that Burke ever wrote.

That the few may lead selfish and vacuous days.