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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... spirit that is mistaken , and its principle that is subverted . Indeed nothing is security to any individual but the common interest of all . This act , therefore , has this distinguished evil in it , that it is the first partial ...
... spirit that is mistaken , and its principle that is subverted . Indeed nothing is security to any individual but the common interest of all . This act , therefore , has this distinguished evil in it , that it is the first partial ...
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... spirit of those gentlemen , who , with a just confidence in their abilities , ( in which I claim a sort of share from my love and admira- tion of them , ) were of opinion that their exertions in this desperate case might be of some ...
... spirit of those gentlemen , who , with a just confidence in their abilities , ( in which I claim a sort of share from my love and admira- tion of them , ) were of opinion that their exertions in this desperate case might be of some ...
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... spirit of parliamentary faith ; when Mr. Tryon , vaunting of the fidelity of the city in which he is governor , is obliged to apply to ministry for eave to protect the king's loyal subjects , and to grant to them 18 LETTER TO THE ...
... spirit of parliamentary faith ; when Mr. Tryon , vaunting of the fidelity of the city in which he is governor , is obliged to apply to ministry for eave to protect the king's loyal subjects , and to grant to them 18 LETTER TO THE ...
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... spirit , will choose to abide the consequences . It is wise to permit its legal existence ; it is much wiser to con- tinue it a legal existence only . So truly has prudence ( con- stituted as the god of this lower world ) the entire ...
... spirit , will choose to abide the consequences . It is wise to permit its legal existence ; it is much wiser to con- tinue it a legal existence only . So truly has prudence ( con- stituted as the god of this lower world ) the entire ...
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Edmund Burke. long course of prosperity and victory , to the high spirit of free dependencies , animated with the first glow and activity of juvenile heat , and assuming to themselves , as their birth- right , some part of that very ...
Edmund Burke. long course of prosperity and victory , to the high spirit of free dependencies , animated with the first glow and activity of juvenile heat , and assuming to themselves , as their birth- right , some part of that very ...
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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.