Burke, Select Works, Volume 2Clarendon Press, 1877 - 712 pages |
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... To avoid therefore the evils of inconstancy and versatility , ten thousand times worse than those of obstinacy and the blindest prejudice , we have consecrated the state ; that no man should approach to look into its defects or ...
... To avoid therefore the evils of inconstancy and versatility , ten thousand times worse than those of obstinacy and the blindest prejudice , we have consecrated the state ; that no man should approach to look into its defects or ...
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Page 288 - They must respect that property of which they cannot partake. They must labour to obtain what by labour can be obtained ; and when they find, as they commonly do, the success disproportioned to the endeavour, they must be taught their consolation in the final proportions of eternal justice.
Page 11 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
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| Title | Burke, Select Works, Volume 2 Burke, Select Works, Edward John Payne Clarendon Press series: English classics Clarendon press series English classics |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Editor | Edward John Payne |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1877 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 May 2005 |
| ISBN | 0722276036, 9780722276037 |
| Length | 712 pages |
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