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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... give rise to it , and which designing men are labouring with such malig- nant industry to diffuse amongst us . It is our business to counteract them , if possible ; if possible , to awake our na- tural regards ; and to revive the old ...
... give rise to it , and which designing men are labouring with such malig- nant industry to diffuse amongst us . It is our business to counteract them , if possible ; if possible , to awake our na- tural regards ; and to revive the old ...
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... the vote , of these expenses . If this be not supply or confidence suf- ficient , let them open their own private purse - strings , and give , from what is left to them , as c 2 .LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 19.
... the vote , of these expenses . If this be not supply or confidence suf- ficient , let them open their own private purse - strings , and give , from what is left to them , as c 2 .LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 19.
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Edmund Burke. give , from what is left to them , as largely and with as little care as they think proper . Tolerated in their passions , let them learn not to persecute the moderation of their fellow - citizens . If all the world joined ...
Edmund Burke. give , from what is left to them , as largely and with as little care as they think proper . Tolerated in their passions , let them learn not to persecute the moderation of their fellow - citizens . If all the world joined ...
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... give a direction , a form , a technical dress , and a specific sanc- tion , to the general sense of the community , is the true end of legislature It is so with regard to the exercise of all LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 27.
... give a direction , a form , a technical dress , and a specific sanc- tion , to the general sense of the community , is the true end of legislature It is so with regard to the exercise of all LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 27.
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... give you a more dis- tinct idea of our policy with regard to this most delicate of all objects . The colonies were from the beginning subject to the legislature of Great Britain , on principles which they never examined ; and we ...
... give you a more dis- tinct idea of our policy with regard to this most delicate of all objects . The colonies were from the beginning subject to the legislature of Great Britain , on principles which they never examined ; and we ...
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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.