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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... force . When that hour arrives , ( for it may arrive , ) then it is , that all this mass of weakness and violence will appear in its full light . If we should be expelled from America , the delusion of the partisans of military ...
... force . When that hour arrives , ( for it may arrive , ) then it is , that all this mass of weakness and violence will appear in its full light . If we should be expelled from America , the delusion of the partisans of military ...
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... force ; but I am afraid that it has been the means of taking up many muskets against you . ence . This outrageous language , which has been encouraged and kept alive by every art , has already done incredible mischief . For a long time ...
... force ; but I am afraid that it has been the means of taking up many muskets against you . ence . This outrageous language , which has been encouraged and kept alive by every art , has already done incredible mischief . For a long time ...
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... force of the kingdom they call for ? They have it already ; and if they choose to fight their battles in their own person , nobody pre- vents their setting sail to America in the next transports . Do they think , that the service is ...
... force of the kingdom they call for ? They have it already ; and if they choose to fight their battles in their own person , nobody pre- vents their setting sail to America in the next transports . Do they think , that the service is ...
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... force , they came to the last extremity . Despairing of us , they trusted in themselves . Not strong enough themselves , they sought succour in France . In proportion as all en- couragement here lessened , their distance from this ...
... force , they came to the last extremity . Despairing of us , they trusted in themselves . Not strong enough themselves , they sought succour in France . In proportion as all en- couragement here lessened , their distance from this ...
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... force of civil discretion , often conducted the affairs of great nations with distinguished felicity and glory . When I first came into a public trust , I found your parlia- ment in possession of an unlimited legislative power over the ...
... force of civil discretion , often conducted the affairs of great nations with distinguished felicity and glory . When I first came into a public trust , I found your parlia- ment in possession of an unlimited legislative power over the ...
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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.