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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... trans- actions ought to do ) fairly describe its object . The persons who make a naval war upon us , in consequence of the pre- sent troubles , may be rebels ; but to call and treat them as pirates , is confounding , not only the ...
... trans- actions ought to do ) fairly describe its object . The persons who make a naval war upon us , in consequence of the pre- sent troubles , may be rebels ; but to call and treat them as pirates , is confounding , not only the ...
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... trans- formations ; and are not so nice as to refuse to nibble at those crumbs of emoluments , which console their petty metamorphoses . Thus every one of those principalities has the apparatus of a kingdom , for the jurisdiction over a ...
... trans- formations ; and are not so nice as to refuse to nibble at those crumbs of emoluments , which console their petty metamorphoses . Thus every one of those principalities has the apparatus of a kingdom , for the jurisdiction over a ...
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... trans- fer the payment of every name , mode , and denomination of pensions , to the exchequer . The present course of diversify- ing the same object can answer no good purpose ; whatever its use may be to purposes of another kind ...
... trans- fer the payment of every name , mode , and denomination of pensions , to the exchequer . The present course of diversify- ing the same object can answer no good purpose ; whatever its use may be to purposes of another kind ...
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... trans- actions . On my coming to town , I sent for an account of their proceedings , which had been published by their au- thority , containing a sermon of Dr. Price , with the Duke de Rochefaucault's and the Archbishop of Aix's letter ...
... trans- actions . On my coming to town , I sent for an account of their proceedings , which had been published by their au- thority , containing a sermon of Dr. Price , with the Duke de Rochefaucault's and the Archbishop of Aix's letter ...
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... trans- mit our property and our lives . The institutions of policy , the goods of fortune , the gifts of providence , are handed down to us , and from us , in the same course and order . Our political system is placed in a just ...
... trans- mit our property and our lives . The institutions of policy , the goods of fortune , the gifts of providence , are handed down to us , and from us , in the same course and order . Our political system is placed in a just ...
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Página 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?
Página 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.