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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... AFFAIRS OF AMERICA Two LETTERS TO GENTLEMEN OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL , ON THE BILL DEPENDING IN PARLIAMENT RELATIVE TO THE Trade of IRELAND SPEECH ON Presenting tO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS A PLAN FOR THE BETTER SECURITY OF THE Independence of ...
... AFFAIRS OF AMERICA Two LETTERS TO GENTLEMEN OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL , ON THE BILL DEPENDING IN PARLIAMENT RELATIVE TO THE Trade of IRELAND SPEECH ON Presenting tO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS A PLAN FOR THE BETTER SECURITY OF THE Independence of ...
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... AFFAIRS OF AMERICA . 1777 . GENTLEMEN , I HAVE the honour of sending you the two last acts which have been passed with regard to the troubles in Ame- rica . These acts are similar to all the rest which have been made on the same subject ...
... AFFAIRS OF AMERICA . 1777 . GENTLEMEN , I HAVE the honour of sending you the two last acts which have been passed with regard to the troubles in Ame- rica . These acts are similar to all the rest which have been made on the same subject ...
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... affairs as an ob- ject of triumph to themselves , or of congratulation to their sovereign ? Nothing surely could be more lamentable to those who remember the flourishing days of this kingdom , than to see the insane joy of several ...
... affairs as an ob- ject of triumph to themselves , or of congratulation to their sovereign ? Nothing surely could be more lamentable to those who remember the flourishing days of this kingdom , than to see the insane joy of several ...
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... affairs . Men of firmer minds may see them without staggering or astonishment.- Some may think them matters of congratulation and compli- mentary addresses ; but I trust your candour will be so in- dulgent to my weakness , as not to ...
... affairs . Men of firmer minds may see them without staggering or astonishment.- Some may think them matters of congratulation and compli- mentary addresses ; but I trust your candour will be so in- dulgent to my weakness , as not to ...
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... affairs . It leaves no medium between insolent victory and infamous defeat . It tends to alienate our minds farther and farther from our natural regards , and to make an eternal rent and schism in the British nation . Those who do not ...
... affairs . It leaves no medium between insolent victory and infamous defeat . It tends to alienate our minds farther and farther from our natural regards , and to make an eternal rent and schism in the British nation . Those who do not ...
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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.