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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... means necessary for its safety . I cannot enter into it . If Lord Balmerino , in the last re- bellion , had driven off the cattle of twenty clans , I should have thought it would have been a scandalous and low juggle , utterly unworthy ...
... means necessary for its safety . I cannot enter into it . If Lord Balmerino , in the last re- bellion , had driven off the cattle of twenty clans , I should have thought it would have been a scandalous and low juggle , utterly unworthy ...
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... means clear to me , whether the negative proof does not lie upon the person apprehended on suspicion , to the subversion of all justice . I have not debated against this bill in its progress through the House ; because it would have ...
... means clear to me , whether the negative proof does not lie upon the person apprehended on suspicion , to the subversion of all justice . I have not debated against this bill in its progress through the House ; because it would have ...
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... means of originally holding America , that our means of reconciling with it after quarrel , of recovering it after separation , of keeping it after victory , did depend , and must depend in their several stages and periods , upon a ...
... means of originally holding America , that our means of reconciling with it after quarrel , of recovering it after separation , of keeping it after victory , did depend , and must depend in their several stages and periods , upon a ...
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... means of peace ? In former times , ministers , I allow , have been sometimes driven by the popular voice to assert by arms the national honour against foreign powers . But the wisdom of the nation has been far more clear , when those ...
... means of peace ? In former times , ministers , I allow , have been sometimes driven by the popular voice to assert by arms the national honour against foreign powers . But the wisdom of the nation has been far more clear , when those ...
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... means of saving the constitution itself , on an occasion worthy of bringing it forth . As the disputants , whose accurate and logical reasonings have brought us into our present condition , think it absurd , that powers or members of ...
... means of saving the constitution itself , on an occasion worthy of bringing it forth . As the disputants , whose accurate and logical reasonings have brought us into our present condition , think it absurd , that powers or members of ...
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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.