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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... mind continues in full vigour , and it continues under a worse form . If your peace be no- thing more than a sullen pause from arms ; if their quiet be nothing but the meditation of revenge , where smitten pride smarting from its wounds ...
... mind continues in full vigour , and it continues under a worse form . If your peace be no- thing more than a sullen pause from arms ; if their quiet be nothing but the meditation of revenge , where smitten pride smarting from its wounds ...
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... 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 manners of the people . They ...
... 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 manners of the people . They ...
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... minds may see them without staggering or astonishment.- Some may think them matters of congratulation and compli ... mind to the feelings with which the court gazettes mean to impress the people . It is not instantly that I can be ...
... minds may see them without staggering or astonishment.- Some may think them matters of congratulation and compli ... mind to the feelings with which the court gazettes mean to impress the people . It is not instantly that I can be ...
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... mind with anxiety and diffidence . Wise men often tremble at the very things which fill the thoughtless with security . For many reasons I do not choose to expose to public view all the par- ticulars of the state in which you stood with ...
... mind with anxiety and diffidence . Wise men often tremble at the very things which fill the thoughtless with security . For many reasons I do not choose to expose to public view all the par- ticulars of the state in which you stood with ...
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... mind the moment of the final triumph of foreign military force . When that hour arrives , ( for it may arrive , ) then it is , that all this mass of weakness and violence will appear in its full light . If we should be expelled from ...
... mind the moment of the final triumph of foreign military force . When that hour arrives , ( for it may arrive , ) then it is , that all this mass of weakness and violence will appear in its full light . If we should be expelled from ...
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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.