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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... matter for very pleasing reflection to ob- serve that our subjects diminish as our laws increase . If I have the misfortune of differing with some of my fel- low - citizens on this great and arduous subject , it is no small consolation ...
... matter for very pleasing reflection to ob- serve that our subjects diminish as our laws increase . If I have the misfortune of differing with some of my fel- low - citizens on this great and arduous subject , it is no small consolation ...
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... matter of discussion under a commission of Oyer and Terminer . It is as opposite to reason and prudence , as it is to humanity and justice . This act , proceeding on these principles , that is , preparing to end the present troubles by ...
... matter of discussion under a commission of Oyer and Terminer . It is as opposite to reason and prudence , as it is to humanity and justice . This act , proceeding on these principles , that is , preparing to end the present troubles by ...
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... matters of congratulation and compli- mentary addresses ; but I trust your candour will be so in- dulgent to my weakness , as not to have the worse opinion of me for my declining to participate in this joy , and my reject- ing all share ...
... matters of congratulation and compli- mentary addresses ; but I trust your candour will be so in- dulgent to my weakness , as not to have the worse opinion of me for my declining to participate in this joy , and my reject- ing all share ...
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... matter , and if peace is not wholly removed from their hearts , to consider seriously , first , that to criminate and recriminate never yet was the road to re- conciliation , in any difference amongst men . In the next place , it would ...
... matter , and if peace is not wholly removed from their hearts , to consider seriously , first , that to criminate and recriminate never yet was the road to re- conciliation , in any difference amongst men . In the next place , it would ...
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... matter either of wish or congratulation , we ought to be pretty sure that we are engaged in a rational pursuit . Phrensy does not become a slighter distemper on account of the number of those who may be infected with it . Delusion and ...
... matter either of wish or congratulation , we ought to be pretty sure that we are engaged in a rational pursuit . Phrensy does not become a slighter distemper on account of the number of those who may be infected with it . Delusion and ...
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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.