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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... humanity to their slaves . Such executions may indeed satiate our revenge ; they may harden our hearts , and puff us up with pride and arrogance . Alas ! this is not instruction ! If anything can be drawn from such examples by a parity ...
... humanity to their slaves . Such executions may indeed satiate our revenge ; they may harden our hearts , and puff us up with pride and arrogance . Alas ! this is not instruction ! If anything can be drawn from such examples by a parity ...
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... human action , the rule of your justice . These strange incongruities must ever perplex those who confound the unhappiness of civil dissensions with the crime of treason . Whenever a rebellion really and truly exists , which is as ...
... human action , the rule of your justice . These strange incongruities must ever perplex those who confound the unhappiness of civil dissensions with the crime of treason . Whenever a rebellion really and truly exists , which is as ...
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... humanity and justice . This act , 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 ...
... humanity and justice . This act , 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 ...
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... 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 abrogated .. Civil wars strike deepest of all into the ...
... 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 abrogated .. Civil wars strike deepest of all into the ...
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... human affairs . Men of firmer minds may see them without staggering or astonishment.- Some may think them matters of congratulation and compli- mentary addresses ; but I trust your candour will be so in- dulgent to my weakness , as not ...
... human affairs . Men of firmer minds may see them without staggering or astonishment.- Some may think them matters of congratulation and compli- mentary addresses ; but I trust your candour will be so in- dulgent to my weakness , as not ...
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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.