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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... kind of slavery the most easily ad- mitted in times of civil discord ; for parties are but too apt to forget their own future safety in their desire of sacrificing their enemies . People without much difficulty admit the entrance of ...
... kind of slavery the most easily ad- mitted in times of civil discord ; for parties are but too apt to forget their own future safety in their desire of sacrificing their enemies . People without much difficulty admit the entrance of ...
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... kind which distinguish it from all others . Not only our policy is deranged , and our empire distracted , but our laws and our legislative spirit appear to have been totally perverted by it . We have made war on our colonies , not by ...
... kind which distinguish it from all others . Not only our policy is deranged , and our empire distracted , but our laws and our legislative spirit appear to have been totally perverted by it . We have made war on our colonies , not by ...
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... kind , our conduct , at least , is conformable to our faculties . No man's life pays the forfeit of our rashness . No desolate widow weeps tears of blood over our ignorance . Scrupulous and sober in our well - grounded distrust of ...
... kind , our conduct , at least , is conformable to our faculties . No man's life pays the forfeit of our rashness . No desolate widow weeps tears of blood over our ignorance . Scrupulous and sober in our well - grounded distrust of ...
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... kind I do not see how it is ever practicable really to reconcile with those , whose affec- tion , after all , must be the surest hold of our government ; and which is a thousand times more worth to us , than the mercenary zeal of all ...
... kind I do not see how it is ever practicable really to reconcile with those , whose affec- tion , after all , must be the surest hold of our government ; and which is a thousand times more worth to us , than the mercenary zeal of all ...
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... whole continent , or within three thousand miles of it , qualified by law to follow allegiance with protection , or submission with pardon . A proceeding of this kind has no example 24 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL .
... whole continent , or within three thousand miles of it , qualified by law to follow allegiance with protection , or submission with pardon . A proceeding of this kind has no example 24 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL .
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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.