The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellanies. Reflections on the revolution in France. Letter to a member of the National assemblyG. Bell & sons, 1892 - Political science |
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... COMMONS A PLAN FOR THE BETTER SECURITY OF THE Independence of Parliament , AND THE ECONOMICAL REFORMATION of the Civil AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS SPEECH AT BRISTOL , PREVIOUS TO THE ELECTION , 1780 SPEECH AT BRISTOL , ON DECLINING THE ...
... COMMONS A PLAN FOR THE BETTER SECURITY OF THE Independence of Parliament , AND THE ECONOMICAL REFORMATION of the Civil AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS SPEECH AT BRISTOL , PREVIOUS TO THE ELECTION , 1780 SPEECH AT BRISTOL , ON DECLINING THE ...
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... Commons , it has been amended , so as to express , more distinctly than at first it did , the avowed sentiments of those who framed it : and the main ground of my exception to it is , because it does ex- press , and does carry into ...
... Commons , it has been amended , so as to express , more distinctly than at first it did , the avowed sentiments of those who framed it : and the main ground of my exception to it is , because it does ex- press , and does carry into ...
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... Commons will glut them , let their appetite for expense be never so keen . And I assure them further , that those who think with them in the House of Commons are full as easy in the control , as they are liberal in the vote , of these ...
... Commons will glut them , let their appetite for expense be never so keen . And I assure them further , that those who think with them in the House of Commons are full as easy in the control , as they are liberal in the vote , of these ...
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... to be , with the greatest egard and esteem , GENTLEMEN , Your most obedient and humble servant , Westminster , May 2 , 1778 . I send the bills . E. B. SPEECH ON PRESENTING TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS , ( 54 TWO LETTERS TO GENTLEMEN IN BRISTOL .
... to be , with the greatest egard and esteem , GENTLEMEN , Your most obedient and humble servant , Westminster , May 2 , 1778 . I send the bills . E. B. SPEECH ON PRESENTING TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS , ( 54 TWO LETTERS TO GENTLEMEN IN BRISTOL .
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Edmund Burke. SPEECH ON PRESENTING TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS , ( ON THE 11TH FEBRUARY , 1780 , ) A PLAN FOR THE BETTER SECURITY OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF PAK- LIAMENT , AND THE ECONOMICAL REFORMATION OF THE CIVIL AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS . MR ...
Edmund Burke. SPEECH ON PRESENTING TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS , ( ON THE 11TH FEBRUARY , 1780 , ) A PLAN FOR THE BETTER SECURITY OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF PAK- LIAMENT , AND THE ECONOMICAL REFORMATION OF THE CIVIL AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS . MR ...
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Page 321 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Page 553 - Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.