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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... portraits ; its monumental inscriptions ; its records , evidences , and titles . We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which nature teaches us to revere individual men ; on account of their age , and on ...
... portraits ; its monumental inscriptions ; its records , evidences , and titles . We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which nature teaches us to revere individual men ; on account of their age , and on ...
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... portrait of a country whose government was a perfect grievance , an absolute evil , admitting no cure but through the violent and uncertain remedy of a total revolution . He affirms , that from the year 1726 to the year 1784 , there was ...
... portrait of a country whose government was a perfect grievance , an absolute evil , admitting no cure but through the violent and uncertain remedy of a total revolution . He affirms , that from the year 1726 to the year 1784 , there was ...
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... Portrait , and 8 Plates of Medals . 6 vols . This is the most complete edition of Addison's Works issued . - See ... Portrait . 4 vols . BRINK ( B. ten ) . Early English Literature ( to Wiclif ) . By Bernhard ten Brink . Trans . by Prof ...
... Portrait , and 8 Plates of Medals . 6 vols . This is the most complete edition of Addison's Works issued . - See ... Portrait . 4 vols . BRINK ( B. ten ) . Early English Literature ( to Wiclif ) . By Bernhard ten Brink . Trans . by Prof ...
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... Portrait . 4 vols . CLASSIC TALES , containing Rasselas , Vicar of Wakefield , Gulliver's Travels , and The Sentimental Journey . COLERIDGE'S ( S. T. ) Friend . A Series of Essays on Morals , Politics , and Reli- gion . Portrait . Aids ...
... Portrait . 4 vols . CLASSIC TALES , containing Rasselas , Vicar of Wakefield , Gulliver's Travels , and The Sentimental Journey . COLERIDGE'S ( S. T. ) Friend . A Series of Essays on Morals , Politics , and Reli- gion . Portrait . Aids ...
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... Portrait . History of Civilisation . From the Roman Empire to the French Revolution . Trans . by W. Hazlitt . Portraits . 3 vols . HALL'S ( Rev. Robert ) Works and Remains . Memoir by Dr. Gregory and Essay by J. Foster . Portrait ...
... Portrait . History of Civilisation . From the Roman Empire to the French Revolution . Trans . by W. Hazlitt . Portraits . 3 vols . HALL'S ( Rev. Robert ) Works and Remains . Memoir by Dr. Gregory and Essay by J. Foster . Portrait ...
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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.