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" ... that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. "
Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Page 170
edited by - 1847
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The Life of Sir Joseph Napier, Bart., Ex-Lord Chancellor of Ireland: From ...

Alexander Charles Ewald - Ireland - 1887 - 464 pages
...my dear Lord, Your obliged and faithful JOSEPH NAPIER. CHAPTER IV. THE TURNING OF THE TIDE. You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural...discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe. — EDMUND BURKE, Reflections on the Revolution in France. Le gouverneroent d'Angleterre est plus sage...
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A history of England in the eighteenth century, Volume 5

William Edward H. Lecky - Great Britain - 1887 - 634 pages
...your community was happily composed. You had all that combination and all that opposition of interests which in the natural and in the political world from...discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe. Those opposed and conflicting interests which you considered as so great a blemish in your old, and...
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Beckonings of the Spirit

Frederic Allen Hinckley - 1890 - 128 pages
...appreciate the fine sentence of Edmund Burke referring to the revolution in France : — " You had that action and counteraction, which in the natural...discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe." Such a universe I say again is set to music. It is resonant touch it where you will. It vibrates responsively,...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke - France - 1890 - 568 pages
...was happily composed ; you had all that combination, and all that opposition of interests, you had that action and counteraction which, in the natural...the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of dis30 cordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. These opposed and conflicting interests,...
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Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs: Authors ...

Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...if the world only saw the motives which caused them. La Rochefoucauld. AND COUNTER-ACTION. You had that action and counter-action which in the natural...discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. Edmund Burke. CHOICE IN. When we cannot act as we wish, we in ist act as we can. Terrene«, CONSEQUENCES...
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Handy-book of Literary Curiosities

William Shepard Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1114 pages
...SAINT-PIHRKK : Etudes de la Nature. You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and the political world, from the reciprocal struggle...discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. — BURKE : Reflections он tke French Revolution. Apropos of the quotation from Burke, Henry II....
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Handy-book of Literary Curiosities

William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1116 pages
...results.—SAINT-PIERRE : Etudes de la Nature. You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and ets a royal welcome. The Tories, headed by the clergy,...delighted to greet a proselyte from paganism who recog BURKE : Reflections on the French Revolution. Apropos of the quotation from Burke, Henry H. Breen,...
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The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellanies ...

Edmund Burke - Political science - 1892 - 598 pages
...was happily composed ; you had all that combination, and all that opposition of interests, you had that action and counteraction, which, in the natural and in the political vorld, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. THese...
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The Greatest Works of the Greatest Authors, Ancient and Modern ...

Literature - 1894 - 916 pages
...All concord's born of contraries." Compare what Burke (" French Revolution," p. 81) says:— "You had ng thereof." THE VIOLENT. Force, unaccompanied by...its own weight. The gods give effect to force regul parties draws out the harmony of nature." THE GOOD EASILY SATISFIED. We can get a crop of friends at...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volume 4

Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 pages
...was happily composed ; you had all that combination, and all that opposition of interests, you had that action and counteraction, which, in the natural...discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe. These opposed and conflicting interests, which you considered as so great a blemish in your old and...
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