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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... nature be daily and ordinary incidents ) can be ad- mitted as a reason for such mighty operations . But the true danger is , when liberty is nibbled away , for expedients , and by parts . The Habeas Corpus act supposes , contrary to the ...
... nature be daily and ordinary incidents ) can be ad- mitted as a reason for such mighty operations . But the true danger is , when liberty is nibbled away , for expedients , and by parts . The Habeas Corpus act supposes , contrary to the ...
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... natural terrors attending it , I should be sorry that anything framed in con- tradiction to the spirit of our constitution did not instantly produce , in fact , the grossest of the evils with which it was pregnant in its nature . It is ...
... natural terrors attending it , I should be sorry that anything framed in con- tradiction to the spirit of our constitution did not instantly produce , in fact , the grossest of the evils with which it was pregnant in its nature . It is ...
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... natural taste and relish of equity and justice . By teaching us to consider our fellow - citizens in a hostile light ... nature . What but that blindness of heart which arises from the phrensy of civil contention , could have made any ...
... natural taste and relish of equity and justice . By teaching us to consider our fellow - citizens in a hostile light ... nature . What but that blindness of heart which arises from the phrensy of civil contention , could have made any ...
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... natural that they should attribute to assemblies , so respectable in their formal constitution , some part of the ... nature , may complain of all this variation , on the one side or the other , as their several humours and prejudices ...
... natural that they should attribute to assemblies , so respectable in their formal constitution , some part of the ... nature , may complain of all this variation , on the one side or the other , as their several humours and prejudices ...
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... natural advantages , a virtual equality of contribution will come in its own time , and will flow by an easy descent through its own proper and natural channels . An attempt to disturb that course , and to force nature , will only bring ...
... natural advantages , a virtual equality of contribution will come in its own time , and will flow by an easy descent through its own proper and natural channels . An attempt to disturb that course , and to force nature , will only bring ...
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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.