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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... called to a tremendous account for engaging in so deep a play , without any sort of knowledge of the game . It is no excuse for presumptuous ignorance , that it is directed by insolent passion . The poorest being that ין crawls on earth ...
... called to a tremendous account for engaging in so deep a play , without any sort of knowledge of the game . It is no excuse for presumptuous ignorance , that it is directed by insolent passion . The poorest being that ין crawls on earth ...
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... called in war to supply the defects of your political establishment . Nor would any disorder or disobedience to government which could arise from the most abject concession on our part , ever equal those which will be felt , after the ...
... called in war to supply the defects of your political establishment . Nor would any disorder or disobedience to government which could arise from the most abject concession on our part , ever equal those which will be felt , after the ...
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... and that the cause of the dispute was lost in the consequences . The people of England were then , as they are now , called upon to make government strong . They thought it a great deal better to LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 23.
... and that the cause of the dispute was lost in the consequences . The people of England were then , as they are now , called upon to make government strong . They thought it a great deal better to LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 23.
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... called natural and much provoked , ) was the inevitable consequence . How this came to pass , the nation may be one day in an humour to inquire . All the attempts made this session to give fuller powers of peace to the commanders in ...
... called natural and much provoked , ) was the inevitable consequence . How this came to pass , the nation may be one day in an humour to inquire . All the attempts made this session to give fuller powers of peace to the commanders in ...
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... called , and sat with nearly as much regu- larity to business as parliament itself . It is now called for form only . It sits for the purpose of making some polite ecclesiastical compliments to the king ; and , when that grace is said ...
... called , and sat with nearly as much regu- larity to business as parliament itself . It is now called for form only . It sits for the purpose of making some polite ecclesiastical compliments to the king ; and , when that grace is said ...
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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.