 | Edmund Burke - 1790 - 370 pages
...men, plots and affaffinations will be anticipated by preventive murder and preventive confifcation, and that long roll of grim and bloody maxims, which form the political code of all power, not Handing on its own honour, and the honour of thofe who arc to obey it. King* will be tyrants from policy... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1790 - 380 pages
...men, plots and affaffinations will be anticipated by preventive murder and preventive connTcation, and that long roll of grim and bloody maxims, which form the political code of all power, not ftanding on its own honour, and the honour of thofe who are to obey it. Kings will be tyrants from... | |
 | 1790 - 564 pages
...ufurpation which, in order nations will be anticipated by prevenlive murder and preventive confifcation, and that long roll of grim and bloody maxims, which form the political code of all power, not ftandmg, on its own honour, and the honour of to fubvert antient inftirutions, has dsitroyed antient... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 pages
...which form the pa • litical code of all power, not Handing on its own hpnour, and the honour of thofe who are to obey it. Kings will be tyrants from policy when fubjects ar« fcbels from principle. \yhen ^ntieqt opinions and rules of life are taker; away, the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 458 pages
...men, plots and aflaliinations will be anticipated by preventive murder and preventive confifcation, and that long roll of grim and bloody maxims, which form the political code of all power, not ftanding on its own honour, and the honour of thofe who are to obey it. Kings will be tyrants from... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...men, plots and assassinations will be anticipated by preventive murder and preventive confiscation, and that long roll of grim and bloody maxims, which...from policy when subjects are rebels from principle. When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...men, plots and assassinations will be anticipated by preventive murder and preventive confiscation, and that long roll of grim and bloody maxims, which...from policy when subjects are rebels from principle. When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pages
...men, plots and assassinations will be anticipated by preventive murder and preventive confiscation, and that long roll of grim and bloody maxims, which...from policy when subjects are rebels from principle. When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away. the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pages
...men, plots and assassinations will be anticipated by preventive murder and preventive confiscation, and that long roll of grim and bloody maxims, which...from policy when subjects are rebels from principle. When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1815 - 596 pages
...criminals to escape again unpunished. There is but too much truth in the observation of BURKE, that " Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle." — Let not, therefore, th* same ill-judging, though amiable fear of inflicting punishment, again be... | |
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When the old feudal and chivalrous spirit of fealty, which, by freeing kings from fear, freed both kings and subjects from the precautions of tyranny, shall be extinct in the minds of men, plots and assassinations will be anticipated by preventive murder... 
