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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... feel exactly the same emotions of grief and shame in all its miserable consequences ; whether they ap- pear , on the one side or the other , in the shape of victories or defeats , of captures made from the English on the conti- nent ...
... feel exactly the same emotions of grief and shame in all its miserable consequences ; whether they ap- pear , on the one side or the other , in the shape of victories or defeats , of captures made from the English on the conti- nent ...
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Edmund Burke. 99 of Lankind , or to his reputation from their general feel- ings , by degrading his offence , when I cannot soften his punishment . The general sense of mankind tells me , that those offences , which may possibly arise ...
Edmund Burke. 99 of Lankind , or to his reputation from their general feel- ings , by degrading his offence , when I cannot soften his punishment . The general sense of mankind tells me , that those offences , which may possibly arise ...
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... feel its distemper . As yet they , and their German allies of twenty hireling states , have contended only with the unprepared strength of our own infant colonies . But America is not subdued . Not one unattacked village which was ...
... feel its distemper . As yet they , and their German allies of twenty hireling states , have contended only with the unprepared strength of our own infant colonies . But America is not subdued . Not one unattacked village which was ...
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... feeling for the persons , or less value for the privileges , of their revolted brethren . If we all adopted their sentiments to a man , their allies , the savage Indians , could not be more ferocious than they are : they could not ...
... feeling for the persons , or less value for the privileges , of their revolted brethren . If we all adopted their sentiments to a man , their allies , the savage Indians , could not be more ferocious than they are : they could not ...
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... ; and not a matter of moral prudence and natural feeling . They have disputed , whether liberty be a positive or a negative idea ; whether it does not consist in being governed by laws , without LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 29.
... ; and not a matter of moral prudence and natural feeling . They have disputed , whether liberty be a positive or a negative idea ; whether it does not consist in being governed by laws , without LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 29.
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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.