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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... Lord Coke , the oracle of the English law , conforms to that general sense where he says , that " those things which are of the highest criminality may be of the least disgrace . ' The act prepares a sort of masked proceeding , not ...
... Lord Coke , the oracle of the English law , conforms to that general sense where he says , that " those things which are of the highest criminality may be of the least disgrace . ' The act prepares a sort of masked proceeding , not ...
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... lord in office , ) it is not the judicial slaughter , which is made in another hemisphere against their universal sense of justice , that will ever reconcile them to the British government . Is I take it for granted , gentlemen , that ...
... lord in office , ) it is not the judicial slaughter , which is made in another hemisphere against their universal sense of justice , that will ever reconcile them to the British government . Is I take it for granted , gentlemen , that ...
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... Lord Howe and General Howe have powers , under an act of parliament , to restore to the king's peace and to free trade any men , or district , which shall submit . Is this done ? We have been over and over informed by the authorized ...
... Lord Howe and General Howe have powers , under an act of parliament , to restore to the king's peace and to free trade any men , or district , which shall submit . Is this done ? We have been over and over informed by the authorized ...
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... Lord Howe . And it is not a little remarkable , that , in proportion as every person showed a zeal for the court measures , he was then earnest in circulating an opinion of the extent of the supposed powers of that commission . When I ...
... Lord Howe . And it is not a little remarkable , that , in proportion as every person showed a zeal for the court measures , he was then earnest in circulating an opinion of the extent of the supposed powers of that commission . When I ...
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... lord in the blue riband , last year , treated all this with contempt . He never could conceive it possible that the French minister of finance could go through that year with a loan of but seventeen hundred thousand pounds ; and that he ...
... lord in the blue riband , last year , treated all this with contempt . He never could conceive it possible that the French minister of finance could go through that year with a loan of but seventeen hundred thousand pounds ; and that he ...
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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.