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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... exists , which is as easily known in fact as it is difficult to define in words , government has not entered into such military con- ventions ; but has ever declined all intermediate treaty , which should put rebels in possession of the ...
... exists , which is as easily known in fact as it is difficult to define in words , government has not entered into such military con- ventions ; but has ever declined all intermediate treaty , which should put rebels in possession of the ...
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... exists ; I mean the people to be governed . For I thought I saw , that many cases might well happen , in which the exercise of every power comprehended in the broadest idea of legislature , might become , in its time and circumstances ...
... exists ; I mean the people to be governed . For I thought I saw , that many cases might well happen , in which the exercise of every power comprehended in the broadest idea of legislature , might become , in its time and circumstances ...
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... exist , rarely or never to be exercised , I hope I shall be excused in mentioning another instance , that is material . We know , that the convocation of the clergy had formerly been called , and sat with nearly as much regu- larity to ...
... exist , rarely or never to be exercised , I hope I shall be excused in mentioning another instance , that is material . We know , that the convocation of the clergy had formerly been called , and sat with nearly as much regu- larity to ...
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... exist . And indeed how is it possible ? when those who are to make the laws , to guard , to enforce , or to obey them , are , by a tacit confederacy of manners , indisposed to the spirit of all generous and noble institutions . : I am ...
... exist . And indeed how is it possible ? when those who are to make the laws , to guard , to enforce , or to obey them , are , by a tacit confederacy of manners , indisposed to the spirit of all generous and noble institutions . : I am ...
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... exists for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people , or that there is such a principle involved in its policy . Under the impression of these sentiments ( and not as wanting every attention to my constituents , which ...
... exists for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people , or that there is such a principle involved in its policy . Under the impression of these sentiments ( and not as wanting every attention to my constituents , which ...
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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.