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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... true spirit of the present law , it is necessary , gentlemen , to apprize you , that there is an act , made so long ago as in the reign of Henry the Eighth , before the existence or thought of any English colonies in America , for the ...
... true spirit of the present law , it is necessary , gentlemen , to apprize you , that there is an act , made so long ago as in the reign of Henry the Eighth , before the existence or thought of any English colonies in America , for the ...
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... true ? If it be , it is surely among such rebellious children that examples for disobedience should be made , to be in any degree instructive : for whoever thought of teaching parents their duty by an example from the punishment of an ...
... true ? If it be , it is surely among such rebellious children that examples for disobedience should be made , to be in any degree instructive : for whoever thought of teaching parents their duty by an example from the punishment of an ...
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... true danger is , when liberty is nibbled away , for expedients , and by parts . The Habeas Corpus act supposes , contrary to the genius of most other laws , that the lawful magistrate may see particular men with a malignant eye , and it ...
... true danger is , when liberty is nibbled away , for expedients , and by parts . The Habeas Corpus act supposes , contrary to the genius of most other laws , that the lawful magistrate may see particular men with a malignant eye , and it ...
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... true , if it were true that an assurance of the friendship of numbers in this country towards the colonies could become an encouragement to them to break off all connexion with it , what is the inference ? Does anybody seriously ...
... true , if it were true that an assurance of the friendship of numbers in this country towards the colonies could become an encouragement to them to break off all connexion with it , what is the inference ? Does anybody seriously ...
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... true , that government is always to be strengthened with the instruments of war , but never furn- ished with the means of peace ? In former times , ministers , I allow , have been sometimes driven by the popular voice to assert by arms ...
... true , that government is always to be strengthened with the instruments of war , but never furn- ished with the means of peace ? In former times , ministers , I allow , have been sometimes driven by the popular voice to assert by arms ...
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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.