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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... taken , and the situ- ation we are in . The other ( for a partial suspension of the Habeas Corpus ) appears to me of a much deeper malignity . During its progress through the House of Commons , it has been amended , so as to express ...
... taken , and the situ- ation we are in . The other ( for a partial suspension of the Habeas Corpus ) appears to me of a much deeper malignity . During its progress through the House of Commons , it has been amended , so as to express ...
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... taken away from the subject in the colonies . This is however say- ing too little ; for to try a man under that act is , in effect , to condemn him unheard . A person is brought hither in the dungeon of a ship's hold ; thence he is ...
... taken away from the subject in the colonies . This is however say- ing too little ; for to try a man under that act is , in effect , to condemn him unheard . A person is brought hither in the dungeon of a ship's hold ; thence he is ...
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... taken in this business has been made by trampling on some maxim of justice , or some capital principle of wise government . What prece- dents were established , and what principles overturned , ( I will not say of English privilege ...
... taken in this business has been made by trampling on some maxim of justice , or some capital principle of wise government . What prece- dents were established , and what principles overturned , ( I will not say of English privilege ...
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... taken such possession of the minds of violent men . The whole of those maxims , upon which we have made and continued this war , must be abandoned . Nothing indeed ( for I would not deceive you ) can place us in our former situation ...
... taken such possession of the minds of violent men . The whole of those maxims , upon which we have made and continued this war , must be abandoned . Nothing indeed ( for I would not deceive you ) can place us in our former situation ...
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... taken to reduce them to unconditional obedience by a military force , they came to the last extremity . Despairing of us , they trusted in themselves . Not strong enough themselves , they sought succour in France . In proportion as all ...
... taken to reduce them to unconditional obedience by a military force , they came to the last extremity . Despairing of us , they trusted in themselves . Not strong enough themselves , they sought succour in France . In proportion as all ...
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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.