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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... thought it would have been a scandalous and low juggle , utterly unworthy of the manliness of an English judicature ... thought of any English colonies in America , for the trial in this kingdom of treasons committed out of the realm ...
... thought it would have been a scandalous and low juggle , utterly unworthy of the manliness of an English judicature ... thought of any English colonies in America , for the trial in this kingdom of treasons committed out of the realm ...
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... thought of teaching parents their duty by an example from the punishment of an undutiful son ? As well might the execution of a fugi- tive negro in the plantations be considered as a lesson to teach masters humanity to their slaves ...
... thought of teaching parents their duty by an example from the punishment of an undutiful son ? As well might the execution of a fugi- tive negro in the plantations be considered as a lesson to teach masters humanity to their slaves ...
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... thought 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 ...
... thought 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 ...
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... thought , that by contracting the sphere of its application , they might lessen the malignity of an 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 ...
... thought , that by contracting the sphere of its application , they might lessen the malignity of an 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 ...
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... ; and that the cause of the dispute was lost in the consequences . The people of England were then , as they are now , called upon to make government strong . They thought it a great deal better to LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 23.
... ; and that the cause of the dispute was lost in the consequences . The people of England were then , as they are now , called upon to make government strong . They thought it a great deal better to LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 23.
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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?
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