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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... reform ourselves . If measures of peace are 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 ...
... reform ourselves . If measures of peace are 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 ...
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... reform the errors under which they suffer , than to reproach those who fore- warned them of their danger . But the rebels looked for assistance from this country . They did so , in the beginning of this controversy , most cer- tainly ...
... reform the errors under which they suffer , than to reproach those who fore- warned them of their danger . But the rebels looked for assistance from this country . They did so , in the beginning of this controversy , most cer- tainly ...
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... reform in the constitution of several parts of the public economy . " I have endeavoured , that this plan should include , in its execution , a considerable reduction of improper expense ; that it should effect a conversion of ...
... reform in the constitution of several parts of the public economy . " I have endeavoured , that this plan should include , in its execution , a considerable reduction of improper expense ; that it should effect a conversion of ...
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... reform must operate as a sort of punishment . Indeed the whole class of the severe and restrictive virtues are at a market almost too high for humanity . What is worse , there are very few of those virtues which are not capable of being ...
... reform must operate as a sort of punishment . Indeed the whole class of the severe and restrictive virtues are at a market almost too high for humanity . What is worse , there are very few of those virtues which are not capable of being ...
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... reform , in some close relation , some bosom friend , some pleasant acquaintance , some dear , protected dependent . Emolument is taken from some ; patronage from others ; objects of pursuit from all . Men , forced into an involun- tary ...
... reform , in some close relation , some bosom friend , some pleasant acquaintance , some dear , protected dependent . Emolument is taken from some ; patronage from others ; objects of pursuit from all . Men , forced into an involun- tary ...
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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.