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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... abused wealth of this country con- tinues a little longer to feel its distemper . As yet they , and their German allies of twenty hireling states , have contended only with the unprepared strength of our own infant colonies . But ...
... abused wealth of this country con- tinues a little longer to feel its distemper . As yet they , and their German allies of twenty hireling states , have contended only with the unprepared strength of our own infant colonies . But ...
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... abuse , if they think it honourable to revile the absent ) can , as things now stand , neither be provoked at our railing , nor bettered by our instruction . All communication is cut off between us , but this we know with certainty ...
... abuse , if they think it honourable to revile the absent ) can , as things now stand , neither be provoked at our railing , nor bettered by our instruction . All communication is cut off between us , but this we know with certainty ...
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... abuses of au- thority . All dread of a standing military force is looked upon as a superstitious panic . All shame of calling in fo- reigners and savages in a civil contest is worn off . We grow indifferent to the consequences ...
... abuses of au- thority . All dread of a standing military force is looked upon as a superstitious panic . All shame of calling in fo- reigners and savages in a civil contest is worn off . We grow indifferent to the consequences ...
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... abuses in the expenditure of public money . " This has been treated by the noble lord in the blue riband , as a wild ... abuse is the direct interest of govern ment ; of government taken abstractedly from its duties , and considered ...
... abuses in the expenditure of public money . " This has been treated by the noble lord in the blue riband , as a wild ... abuse is the direct interest of govern ment ; of government taken abstractedly from its duties , and considered ...
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... abuse will neither draw reverence , nor obtain protec tion . If the noble lord in the blue riband pleads " not ... abusive department , whose province is an object to be regulated , he becomes a criminal who is to be punished . I do most ...
... abuse will neither draw reverence , nor obtain protec tion . If the noble lord in the blue riband pleads " not ... abusive department , whose province is an object to be regulated , he becomes a criminal who is to be punished . I do most ...
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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.