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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... effect , punished with the same death , the same forfeiture , and the same corruption of blood , I never would take from any fellow - creature whatever any sort of advantage which he may derive to his safety from the pity 99 of Lankind ...
... effect , punished with the same death , the same forfeiture , and the same corruption of blood , I never would take from any fellow - creature whatever any sort of advantage which he may derive to his safety from the pity 99 of Lankind ...
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... effect , to condemn him unheard . A person is brought hither in the dungeon of a ship's hold ; thence he is vomited into a dungeon on land ; loaded with irons , unfurnished with money , unsupported by friends , three thousand miles from ...
... effect , to condemn him unheard . A person is brought hither in the dungeon of a ship's hold ; thence he is vomited into a dungeon on land ; loaded with irons , unfurnished with money , unsupported by friends , three thousand miles from ...
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... effect of our victory peace , or obedience , or what we will ; but the war is not ended ; the hostile mind continues in full vigour , and it continues under a worse form . If your peace be no- thing more than a sullen pause from arms ...
... effect of our victory peace , or obedience , or what we will ; but the war is not ended ; the hostile mind continues in full vigour , and it continues under a worse form . If your peace be no- thing more than a sullen pause from arms ...
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... effect of this unnatural contention , that our laws are corrupted . Whilst manners remain entire , they will correct the vices of law , and soften it at length to their own temper . But we have to lament , that in most of the late ...
... effect of this unnatural contention , that our laws are corrupted . Whilst manners remain entire , they will correct the vices of law , and soften it at length to their own temper . But we have to lament , that in most of the late ...
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... effect of the unanimity into which so many have of late been seduced or bullied , or into the appearance of which they have sunk through mere despair . They have been told that their dissent from violent measures is an encouragement to ...
... effect of the unanimity into which so many have of late been seduced or bullied , or into the appearance of which they have sunk through mere despair . They have been told that their dissent from violent measures is an encouragement to ...
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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.