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A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1905 - Page 1164
by Theodore Roosevelt - 1906
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Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from ...

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...presumption ; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, 115 In preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot...appe'tite 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...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...presumption ; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, 115 in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot...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...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pages
...sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption ; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in...unless a controlling power upon will and appetite to be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1811 - 252 pages
...sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption ; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, In...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...
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 1

Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pages
...presumption ; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, 175 in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot...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...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 6

Edmund Burke - 1815 - 402 pages
...understanding is above their vanity and presumption ; in proportion as they are more dis-. posed _to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference...flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controuling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With a Portrait ..., Volume 6

Edmund Burke - 1823 - 390 pages
...sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption ; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in...upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the Jess of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1826 - 520 pages
...sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption ; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in...flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controuling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the...
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The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 pages
...sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption ; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in...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...
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A Discourse on the Genius of the Federative System of the United ..., Volume 213

Beverley Tucker - 1839 - 32 pages
...sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption ; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in...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...
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