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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... English on the conti- nent , or from the English in these islands ; of legislative re- gulations which subvert the liberties of our brethren , or which undermine our own . VOL JI 5 Of the first of these statutes ( that for the VOL A ...
... English on the conti- nent , or from the English in these islands ; of legislative re- gulations which subvert the liberties of our brethren , or which undermine our own . VOL JI 5 Of the first of these statutes ( that for the VOL A ...
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... English law , conforms to that general sense where he says , that " those things which are of the highest criminality may be of the least disgrace . ' The act prepares a sort of masked proceeding , not honourable to the justice of the ...
... English law , conforms to that general sense where he says , that " those things which are of the highest criminality may be of the least disgrace . ' The act prepares a sort of masked proceeding , not honourable to the justice of the ...
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... English in the colonies can support the independency , to which they have been unfortunately driven , I suppose no- body has such a fanatical zeal for the criminal justice of Henry the Eighth , that he will contend for executions which ...
... English in the colonies can support the independency , to which they have been unfortunately driven , I suppose no- body has such a fanatical zeal for the criminal justice of Henry the Eighth , that he will contend for executions which ...
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... - bid that England should ever read this lesson written in the blood of any of her offspring ! War is at present carried on between the king's natural A and foreign troops on one side , and the English LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 5.
... - bid that England should ever read this lesson written in the blood of any of her offspring ! War is at present carried on between the king's natural A and foreign troops on one side , and the English LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 5.
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Edmund Burke. and foreign troops on one side , and the English in America on the other , upon the usual footing of other wars ; and ac- cordingly an exchange of prisoners has been regularly made from the beginning . If notwithstanding ...
Edmund Burke. and foreign troops on one side , and the English in America on the other , upon the usual footing of other wars ; and ac- cordingly an exchange of prisoners has been regularly made from the beginning . If notwithstanding ...
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Page 560 - CHAUCER'S Poetical Works. With Poems formerly attributed to him. With a Memoir, Introduction, Notes, and a Glossary, by R. Bell. Improved edition, with Preliminary Essay by Rev. WW Skeat, MA Portrait. 4 vols.
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.