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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... attempted to be supported over Englishmen by the sword alone , things will thus continue . I anticipate in my mind the moment of the final triumph of foreign military force . When that hour arrives , ( for it may arrive , ) then it is ...
... attempted to be supported over Englishmen by the sword alone , things will thus continue . I anticipate in my mind the moment of the final triumph of foreign military force . When that hour arrives , ( for it may arrive , ) then it is ...
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... attempted in vain . When that disin- genuous compilation , and strange medley of railing and flat- tery , was adduced as a proof of the united sentiments of the people of Great Britain , there was a great change through- out all America ...
... attempted in vain . When that disin- genuous compilation , and strange medley of railing and flat- tery , was adduced as a proof of the united sentiments of the people of Great Britain , there was a great change through- out all America ...
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... attempts made this session to give fuller powers of peace to the commanders in America , were stifled by the fatal confidence of victory , and the wild hopes of unconditional submission . There was a moment favourable to the king's arms ...
... attempts made this session to give fuller powers of peace to the commanders in America , were stifled by the fatal confidence of victory , and the wild hopes of unconditional submission . There was a moment favourable to the king's arms ...
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... attempt such things . If anything can be supposed out of the power of human legislature , it is religion : I ad- mit ... attempted to make such an alteration without a parliament . In ef- fect , to follow , not to force the public ...
... attempt such things . If anything can be supposed out of the power of human legislature , it is religion : I ad- mit ... attempted to make such an alteration without a parliament . In ef- fect , to follow , not to force the public ...
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... attempt violently to bend the people to their theories of subjection . The bulk of mankind on their part are not excessively curious concerning any theories , whilst they are really happy ; and one sure symptom of an ill - conducted ...
... attempt violently to bend the people to their theories of subjection . The bulk of mankind on their part are not excessively curious concerning any theories , whilst they are really happy ; and one sure symptom of an ill - conducted ...
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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.