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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... able to persuade our colonies that they had not a single friend in Great Britain . On the con- trary , if the affections and opinions of mankind be not ex- ploded as principles of connexion , I conceive it would be happy for us if they ...
... able to persuade our colonies that they had not a single friend in Great Britain . On the con- trary , if the affections and opinions of mankind be not ex- ploded as principles of connexion , I conceive it would be happy for us if they ...
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... able advantages ? Have these successes induced us to alter our mind ; as thinking the season of victory not the time for treating with honour or advantage ? Whatever changes have happened in the national character , it can scarcely be ...
... able advantages ? Have these successes induced us to alter our mind ; as thinking the season of victory not the time for treating with honour or advantage ? Whatever changes have happened in the national character , it can scarcely be ...
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... able to see how one power could be given up ( merely on abstract reasoning ) without giv- ing up the rest , I can only say , that they saw farther than I could ; nor did I ever presume to condemn any one for being clear - sighted , when ...
... able to see how one power could be given up ( merely on abstract reasoning ) without giv- ing up the rest , I can only say , that they saw farther than I could ; nor did I ever presume to condemn any one for being clear - sighted , when ...
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... able to make any impression on the warm part of that ancient and powerful party , with whose support I was not honoured at my election ; on my side , my respect , regard , and duty to them is not at all lessened . I owe the gentlemen ...
... able to make any impression on the warm part of that ancient and powerful party , with whose support I was not honoured at my election ; on my side , my respect , regard , and duty to them is not at all lessened . I owe the gentlemen ...
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... able to find , and can prevail on our- selves to strengthen , an union of such men , whatever acci- dentally becomes indisposed to ill - exercised power , even by the ordinary operation of human passions , must join with that society ...
... able to find , and can prevail on our- selves to strengthen , an union of such men , whatever acci- dentally becomes indisposed to ill - exercised power , even by the ordinary operation of human passions , must join with that society ...
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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.