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 |
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... England for trial those who shall commit high treason in America . That you may be enabled to enter into the true spirit of the present law , it is necessary , gentlemen , to apprize you , that there is an act , made so long ago as in ...
... England for trial those who shall commit high treason in America . That you may be enabled to enter into the true spirit of the present law , it is necessary , gentlemen , to apprize you , that there is an act , made so long ago as in ...
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... England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppres- sion . They were invented for this one good purpose , that what was not just should not be convenient . Convinced of this , I would leave things ...
... England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppres- sion . They were invented for this one good purpose , that what was not just should not be convenient . Convinced of this , I would leave things ...
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... England for this American rebellion apply ? Re- member , you are told every day , that the present is a contest between the two countries ; and that we in England are at war for our own dignity against our rebellious children . this ...
... England for this American rebellion apply ? Re- member , you are told every day , that the present is a contest between the two countries ; and that we in England are at war for our own dignity against our rebellious children . this ...
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... England , to whom they could always look for support ! Happy would it be for us , if , in all tempers , they might turn their eyes to the parent state ; so that their very turbulence and sedition should find vent in no other place than ...
... England , to whom they could always look for support ! Happy would it be for us , if , in all tempers , they might turn their eyes to the parent state ; so that their very turbulence and sedition should find vent in no other place than ...
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... England considered Holland as a sort of dependency on this kingdom ; they dreaded to drive it to the protection , or subject it to the power of France , by their own inconsiderate hostility . They paid but little respect to the court ...
... England considered Holland as a sort of dependency on this kingdom ; they dreaded to drive it to the protection , or subject it to the power of France , by their own inconsiderate hostility . They paid but little respect to the court ...
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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.