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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... duty by an example from the punishment of an undutiful son ? As well might the execution of a fugi- tive negro in the plantations be considered as a lesson to teach masters humanity to their slaves . Such executions may indeed satiate ...
... duty by an example from the punishment of an undutiful son ? As well might the execution of a fugi- tive negro in the plantations be considered as a lesson to teach masters humanity to their slaves . Such executions may indeed satiate ...
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... duty , not only to forbear this style of outrage ourselves , but to make every one as sensible as we can of the impro- priety and unworthiness of the tempers which give rise to it , and which designing men are labouring with such malig ...
... duty , not only to forbear this style of outrage ourselves , but to make every one as sensible as we can of the impro- priety and unworthiness of the tempers which give rise to it , and which designing men are labouring with such malig ...
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... duty , in all soberness , to con- form our government to the character and circumstances of the several people who composed this mighty and strangely diversified mass . I never was wild enough to conceive , that one method would serve ...
... duty , in all soberness , to con- form our government to the character and circumstances of the several people who composed this mighty and strangely diversified mass . I never was wild enough to conceive , that one method would serve ...
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... duty to them is not at all lessened . I owe the gentlemen who compose it my most humble ser- vice in everything . I hope that whenever any of them were pleased to command me , that they found me perfectly equal in my obedience . But ...
... duty to them is not at all lessened . I owe the gentlemen who compose it my most humble ser- vice in everything . I hope that whenever any of them were pleased to command me , that they found me perfectly equal in my obedience . But ...
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... duty ; and a decent and regulated sensibility to honest fame and reputa- tion . The agenquestionably produces ( whether in a greater or less number than former times , I know not ) daring profli- gates , and insidious hypocrites . What ...
... duty ; and a decent and regulated sensibility to honest fame and reputa- tion . The agenquestionably produces ( whether in a greater or less number than former times , I know not ) daring profli- gates , and insidious hypocrites . What ...
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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.