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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... possession of the law of nations with regard to war . Commanders would receive no benefits at their hands , because they could make no return for them . Who has ever heard of capitulation , and parole of honour , and exchange of ...
... possession of the law of nations with regard to war . Commanders would receive no benefits at their hands , because they could make no return for them . Who has ever heard of capitulation , and parole of honour , and exchange of ...
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... . Has any of these gentlemen , who are so eager to govern all man- kind , showed himself possessed of the first qualification to- wards government , some knowledge of the object , and LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 15.
... . Has any of these gentlemen , who are so eager to govern all man- kind , showed himself possessed of the first qualification to- wards government , some knowledge of the object , and LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 15.
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... possession of the minds of violent men . The whole of those maxims , upon which we have made and continued this war , must be abandoned . Nothing indeed ( for I would not deceive you ) can place us in our former situation . That hope ...
... possession of the minds of violent men . The whole of those maxims , upon which we have made and continued this war , must be abandoned . Nothing indeed ( for I would not deceive you ) can place us in our former situation . That hope ...
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... possession of an unlimited legislative power over the colonies . I could not open the statute book without seeing the actual exercise of it , more or less , in all cases whatsoever . This possession passed with me for a title . It does ...
... possession of an unlimited legislative power over the colonies . I could not open the statute book without seeing the actual exercise of it , more or less , in all cases whatsoever . This possession passed with me for a title . It does ...
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... possessed of no right at all . I see no abstract reason , which can be given , why the same power , which made and repealed the high - commission court and the star - chamber , might not revive them again ; and these courts , warned by ...
... possessed of no right at all . I see no abstract reason , which can be given , why the same power , which made and repealed the high - commission court and the star - chamber , might not revive them again ; and these courts , warned by ...
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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.