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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... proceeding , not honourable to the justice of the kingdom , and by no means necessary for its safety . I cannot enter into it . If Lord Balmerino , in the last re- bellion , had driven off the cattle of twenty clans , I should have ...
... proceeding , not honourable to the justice of the kingdom , and by no means necessary for its safety . I cannot enter into it . If Lord Balmerino , in the last re- bellion , had driven off the cattle of twenty clans , I should have ...
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... proceeding on these principles , that is , preparing to end the present troubles by a trial of one sort of hostility under the name of piracy , and of another by the name of treason , and executing the act of Henry the Eighth according ...
... proceeding on these principles , that is , preparing to end the present troubles by a trial of one sort of hostility under the name of piracy , and of another by the name of treason , and executing the act of Henry the Eighth according ...
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... proceeding it is never the faction of the predominant power that is in danger : for no tyranny chastises its own instruments . It is the obnox- ious and the suspected who want the protection of law ; and there is nothing to bridle the ...
... proceeding it is never the faction of the predominant power that is in danger : for no tyranny chastises its own instruments . It is the obnox- ious and the suspected who want the protection of law ; and there is nothing to bridle the ...
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... proceedings we see very few traces of that generosity , humanity , and dignity of mind , which formerly characterized this nation . War suspends the rules of moral obligation , and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally ...
... proceedings we see very few traces of that generosity , humanity , and dignity of mind , which formerly characterized this nation . War suspends the rules of moral obligation , and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally ...
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... proceeding ? No conqueror , that I ever heard of , has professed to make a cruel , harsh , and insolent use of his conquest . No ! The man of the most declared pride scarcely dares to trust his own heart with this dreadful secret of ...
... proceeding ? No conqueror , that I ever heard of , has professed to make a cruel , harsh , and insolent use of his conquest . No ! The man of the most declared pride scarcely dares to trust his own heart with this dreadful secret of ...
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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.