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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... manners remain entire , they will correct the vices of law , and soften it at length to their own temper . But we have to lament , that in most of the late proceedings we see very few traces of that generosity , humanity , and dignity ...
... manners remain entire , they will correct the vices of law , and soften it at length to their own temper . But we have to lament , that in most of the late proceedings we see very few traces of that generosity , humanity , and dignity ...
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... manner ; or that the Cutchery court and the grand jury of Salem could be regulated on a similar plan . I was persuaded that government was a practical thing , made for the happiness of mankind , and not to furnish out a spectacle of ...
... manner ; or that the Cutchery court and the grand jury of Salem could be regulated on a similar plan . I was persuaded that government was a practical thing , made for the happiness of mankind , and not to furnish out a spectacle of ...
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... manner the stirrers - up of this contention , not satisfied with distracting our dependencies and filling them with blood and slaughter , are corrupting our understandings : they are en- deavouring to tear up , along with practical ...
... manner the stirrers - up of this contention , not satisfied with distracting our dependencies and filling them with blood and slaughter , are corrupting our understandings : they are en- deavouring to tear up , along with practical ...
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... manner . But they gradually adapted themselves to the varying condition of things.- What was first a single kingdom , stretched into an empire ; and an imperial superintendency , of some kind or other , be- came necessary . Parliament ...
... manner . But they gradually adapted themselves to the varying condition of things.- What was first a single kingdom , stretched into an empire ; and an imperial superintendency , of some kind or other , be- came necessary . Parliament ...
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... manners , than perhaps any other . You possess among you several men and magistrates of large and cultivated understandings ; fit for any employment in any sphere . I do , to the best of my power , act so as to make myself worthy of so ...
... manners , than perhaps any other . You possess among you several men and magistrates of large and cultivated understandings ; fit for any employment in any sphere . I do , to the best of my power , act so as to make myself worthy of so ...
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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.