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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... HOUSE OF 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 ...
... HOUSE OF 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 ...
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... house . Other laws may injure the community , this dissolves it . As things now stand , every man in the West Indies , every one inhabitant of three unoffending pro- vinces on the continent , every person coming from the East Indies ...
... house . Other laws may injure the community , this dissolves it . As things now stand , every man in the West Indies , every one inhabitant of three unoffending pro- vinces on the continent , every person coming from the East Indies ...
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... House of 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 ...
... House of 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 ...
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... House , in obedience to the strong and just requisition of my consti- tuents , and , I am persuaded , in conformity to the unanimous wishes of the whole nation , to submit to the wisdom of par- liament , " A Plan of reform in the ...
... House , in obedience to the strong and just requisition of my consti- tuents , and , I am persuaded , in conformity to the unanimous wishes of the whole nation , to submit to the wisdom of par- liament , " A Plan of reform in the ...
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... House , and the settled , habitual , systematic affection I bear to the cause and to the principles of government . I enter perfectly into the nature and consequences of my attempt ; and I advance to it with a tremor that shakes me to ...
... House , and the settled , habitual , systematic affection I bear to the cause and to the principles of government . I enter perfectly into the nature and consequences of my attempt ; and I advance to it with a tremor that shakes me to ...
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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.