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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... liberty of the subject . If the English in the colonies can support the independency , to which they have been unfortunately driven , I suppose no- body has such a fanatical zeal for the criminal justice of Henry the Eighth , that he ...
... liberty of the subject . If the English in the colonies can support the independency , to which they have been unfortunately driven , I suppose no- body has such a fanatical zeal for the criminal justice of Henry the Eighth , that he ...
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... liberty or justice , ) with regard to all those who have been out of the realm , or on the high seas , within a given time . The rest of the people , as I understand , are to continue as they stood before . I confess , gentlemen , that ...
... liberty or justice , ) with regard to all those who have been out of the realm , or on the high seas , within a given time . The rest of the people , as I understand , are to continue as they stood before . I confess , gentlemen , that ...
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... liberty . They would more carefully advert to every renewal , and more powerfully resist it . These great determined measures are not commonly so dangerous to freedom . They are marked with too strong lines to slide into use . No plea ...
... liberty . They would more carefully advert to every renewal , and more powerfully resist it . These great determined measures are not commonly so dangerous to freedom . They are marked with too strong lines to slide into use . No plea ...
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... liberty and necessity ; and not a matter of moral prudence and natural feeling . They have disputed , whether liberty be a positive or a negative idea ; whether it does not consist in being governed by laws , without LETTER TO THE ...
... liberty and necessity ; and not a matter of moral prudence and natural feeling . They have disputed , whether liberty be a positive or a negative idea ; whether it does not consist in being governed by laws , without LETTER TO THE ...
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... liberty , all the foundations of human society , all equity and justice , re- ligion and order . Civil freedom , gentlemen , is not , as many have endeavoured to persuade you , a thing that lies hid in the depth of ab- struse science ...
... liberty , all the foundations of human society , all equity and justice , re- ligion and order . Civil freedom , gentlemen , is not , as many have endeavoured to persuade you , a thing that lies hid in the depth of ab- struse science ...
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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.