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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... conduct has given sufficient evidence that if I am a single day from my place , it is not owing to indolence or love of dissipation . The slightest hope of doing good is sufficient to recall me to what I quitted with regret . In ...
... conduct has given sufficient evidence that if I am a single day from my place , it is not owing to indolence or love of dissipation . The slightest hope of doing good is sufficient to recall me to what I quitted with regret . In ...
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... those who remember the flourishing days of this kingdom , than to see the insane joy of several unhappy people , amidst the sad spectacle which our affairs and conduct exhibit to LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 11.
... those who remember the flourishing days of this kingdom , than to see the insane joy of several unhappy people , amidst the sad spectacle which our affairs and conduct exhibit to LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 11.
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Edmund Burke. the sad spectacle which our affairs and conduct exhibit to the scorn of Europe . We behold ( and it seems some people re- joice in beholding ) our native land , which used to sit the envied arbiter of all her neighbours ...
Edmund Burke. the sad spectacle which our affairs and conduct exhibit to the scorn of Europe . We behold ( and it seems some people re- joice in beholding ) our native land , which used to sit the envied arbiter of all her neighbours ...
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... conduct , at least , is conformable to our faculties . No man's life pays the forfeit of our rashness . No desolate widow weeps tears of blood over our ignorance . Scrupulous and sober in our well - grounded distrust of ourselves , we ...
... conduct , at least , is conformable to our faculties . No man's life pays the forfeit of our rashness . No desolate widow weeps tears of blood over our ignorance . Scrupulous and sober in our well - grounded distrust of ourselves , we ...
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... conducted state is the propensity of the people to resort to them . But when subjects , by a long course of such ill conduct , are once thoroughly inflamed , and the state itself violently distempered , the people must have some ...
... conducted state is the propensity of the people to resort to them . But when subjects , by a long course of such ill conduct , are once thoroughly inflamed , and the state itself violently distempered , the people must have some ...
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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.