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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... least disgrace . ' The act prepares a sort of masked proceeding , not honourable to the justice of the kingdom , and by no means necessary for its safety . I cannot enter into it . If Lord Balmerino , in the last re- bellion , had ...
... least disgrace . ' The act prepares a sort of masked proceeding , not honourable to the justice of the kingdom , and by no means necessary for its safety . I cannot enter into it . If Lord Balmerino , in the last re- bellion , had ...
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... least , as exceptionable as the end . Permit me to open myself a little upon this subject , because it is of importance to me , when I am obliged to submit to the power without acquiescing in the reason of an act of legislature , that I ...
... least , as exceptionable as the end . Permit me to open myself a little upon this subject , because it is of importance to me , when I am obliged to submit to the power without acquiescing in the reason of an act of legislature , that I ...
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... least condemn the spirit of those gentlemen , who , with a just confidence in their abilities , ( in which I claim a sort of share from my love and admira- tion of them , ) were of opinion that their exertions in this desperate case ...
... least condemn the spirit of those gentlemen , who , with a just confidence in their abilities , ( in which I claim a sort of share from my love and admira- tion of them , ) were of opinion that their exertions in this desperate case ...
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... 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 ourselves , we would keep in ...
... 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 ourselves , we would keep in ...
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... least to settle- ment . În my apprehension , as long as English government is attempted to be supported over Englishmen by the sword alone , things will thus continue . I anticipate in my mind the moment of the final triumph of foreign ...
... least to settle- ment . În my apprehension , as long as English government is attempted to be supported over Englishmen by the sword alone , things will thus continue . I anticipate in my mind the moment of the final triumph of foreign ...
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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.