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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... necessary , result of the measures we have taken , and the situ- ation we are in . The other ( for a partial suspension of the Habeas Corpus ) appears to me of a much deeper malignity . During its progress through the House of Commons ...
... necessary , result of the measures we have taken , and the situ- ation we are in . The other ( for a partial suspension of the Habeas Corpus ) appears to me of a much deeper malignity . During its progress through the House of Commons ...
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... necessary for its safety . I cannot enter into it . If Lord Balmerino , in the last re- bellion , had driven off the cattle of twenty clans , I should have thought it would have been a scandalous and low juggle , utterly unworthy of the ...
... necessary for its safety . I cannot enter into it . If Lord Balmerino , in the last re- bellion , had driven off the cattle of twenty clans , I should have thought it would have been a scandalous and low juggle , utterly unworthy of the ...
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... necessary , they must begin some- where ; and a conciliatory temper must precede and prepare every plan of reconciliation . Nor do I conceive that we suffer anything by thus regulating our own minds . We are not disarmed by being ...
... necessary , they must begin some- where ; and a conciliatory temper must precede and prepare every plan of reconciliation . Nor do I conceive that we suffer anything by thus regulating our own minds . We are not disarmed by being ...
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... necessary , by preference , to exert it in those very points in which it was most likely to be resisted , and the least likely to be pro . ductive of any advantage . These were the considerations , gentlemen , which led me early to ...
... necessary , by preference , to exert it in those very points in which it was most likely to be resisted , and the least likely to be pro . ductive of any advantage . These were the considerations , gentlemen , which led me early to ...
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... necessary to prevent recourse to arms ; it was necessary towards laying them down ; it will be necessary to prevent the taking them up again and again . Of what nature this satisfaction ought to be , I wish it had been the disposition ...
... necessary to prevent recourse to arms ; it was necessary towards laying them down ; it will be necessary to prevent the taking them up again and again . Of what nature this satisfaction ought to be , I wish it had been the disposition ...
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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.