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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... former times , might dread the anger of a reigning prince ; they who are more provident of the future , or by being young are more interested in it , might tremble at the resentment 56 SPEECH ON THE ECONOMICAL REFORM .
... former times , might dread the anger of a reigning prince ; they who are more provident of the future , or by being young are more interested in it , might tremble at the resentment 56 SPEECH ON THE ECONOMICAL REFORM .
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... Prince of Wales . Go to the north , and you find him dwindled to a Duke of Lancaster turn to the west of that north , and he pops upon you in the humble character of Earl of Chester . Travel à few miles on , the Earl of Chester ...
... Prince of Wales . Go to the north , and you find him dwindled to a Duke of Lancaster turn to the west of that north , and he pops upon you in the humble character of Earl of Chester . Travel à few miles on , the Earl of Chester ...
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... prince who would govern his subjects with equity and justice . It is not only between prince and subject , that these mock jurisdictions , and mimic revenues , produce great mischief They excite among the people a spirit of informing ...
... prince who would govern his subjects with equity and justice . It is not only between prince and subject , that these mock jurisdictions , and mimic revenues , produce great mischief They excite among the people a spirit of informing ...
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... Prince , on the ground on which it has since stood . - Lord Coke sagaciously observes upon it , " That in the charter of creating the Black Prince Edward prince of Wales , there is a great mystery for less than an estate of inheritance ...
... Prince , on the ground on which it has since stood . - Lord Coke sagaciously observes upon it , " That in the charter of creating the Black Prince Edward prince of Wales , there is a great mystery for less than an estate of inheritance ...
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... prince , this royal masquerading , is a very dangerous and expensive amusement ; and one of the king's menus plaisirs , which ought to be reformed . This duchy , which is not worth four thousand pounds a year at best to revenue , is ...
... prince , this royal masquerading , is a very dangerous and expensive amusement ; and one of the king's menus plaisirs , which ought to be reformed . This duchy , which is not worth four thousand pounds a year at best to revenue , is ...
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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.