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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... evil and dangerous , even though the instruments of effecting such purposes had been merely of a neutral quality . But it really appears to me , that the means which this act employs are , at least , as exceptionable as the end . Permit ...
... evil and dangerous , even though the instruments of effecting such purposes had been merely of a neutral quality . But it really appears to me , that the means which this act employs are , at least , as exceptionable as the end . Permit ...
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... evil example ( which must in their nature be daily and ordinary incidents ) can be ad- mitted as a reason for such mighty operations . But the true danger is , when liberty is nibbled away , for expedients , and by parts . The Habeas ...
... evil example ( which must in their nature be daily and ordinary incidents ) can be ad- mitted as a reason for such mighty operations . But the true danger is , when liberty is nibbled away , for expedients , and by parts . The Habeas ...
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... evil principle . Perhaps they were in the right . But when my opinion was so very clearly to the contrary , for the reasons I have just stated , I am sure my attendance would have been ridiculous . I must add in further explanation of ...
... evil principle . Perhaps they were in the right . But when my opinion was so very clearly to the contrary , for the reasons I have just stated , I am sure my attendance would have been ridiculous . I must add in further explanation of ...
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... evil , ) trouble- some discussions are brought to some sort of adjustment ; and every hot controversy is not a civil war . But , if the colonies ( to bring the general matter home to us ) could see , that , in Great Britain , the mass ...
... evil , ) trouble- some discussions are brought to some sort of adjustment ; and every hot controversy is not a civil war . But , if the colonies ( to bring the general matter home to us ) could see , that , in Great Britain , the mass ...
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... evil to be lessened . It is not only a private blessing of the first order , but the vital spring and energy of the state itself , which has just so much life and vigour as there is liberty in it . But whether liberty be advantageous or ...
... evil to be lessened . It is not only a private blessing of the first order , but the vital spring and energy of the state itself , which has just so much life and vigour as there is liberty in it . But whether liberty be advantageous or ...
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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.