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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... company . All reverence to honour , all idea of what it is , will be lost out of the world , be- fore it can be imputed as a fault to any man , that he has been closely connected with those incomparable persons , living and dead , with ...
... company . All reverence to honour , all idea of what it is , will be lost out of the world , be- fore it can be imputed as a fault to any man , that he has been closely connected with those incomparable persons , living and dead , with ...
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... company , they are obliged to throw a variety of parts on their chief performer ; so our sovereign condescends himself to act not only the principal , but all the subordinate , parts in the play . He condescends to dissipate the royal ...
... company , they are obliged to throw a variety of parts on their chief performer ; so our sovereign condescends himself to act not only the principal , but all the subordinate , parts in the play . He condescends to dissipate the royal ...
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... company . They are so elevated above all the rest of mankind , that they must look upon all their subjects as on a level . They are rather apt to hate than to love their nobility , on account of the oc- casional resistance to their will ...
... company . They are so elevated above all the rest of mankind , that they must look upon all their subjects as on a level . They are rather apt to hate than to love their nobility , on account of the oc- casional resistance to their will ...
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... company which , if it does not destroy our innocence , pollutes our honour ; let us free ourselves at once from everything that can increase their suspicions , and inflame their just resentment ; let us cast away from us , with a ...
... company which , if it does not destroy our innocence , pollutes our honour ; let us free ourselves at once from everything that can increase their suspicions , and inflame their just resentment ; let us cast away from us , with a ...
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... company . I had heard , that the spirit of discontent on that subject was very preva- lent here . With pleasure I find that I have been grossly misinformed . If it exists at all in this city , the laws have crushed its exertions , and ...
... company . I had heard , that the spirit of discontent on that subject was very preva- lent here . With pleasure I find that I have been grossly misinformed . If it exists at all in this city , the laws have crushed its exertions , and ...
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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.