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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... opinion we shall ex- hibit to the world as indecent a piece of injustice as ever civil fury has produced . If the prisoners , who have been exchanged , have not by that exchange been virtually par- doned , the cartel ( whether avowed or ...
... opinion we shall ex- hibit to the world as indecent a piece of injustice as ever civil fury has produced . If the prisoners , who have been exchanged , have not by that exchange been virtually par- doned , the cartel ( whether avowed or ...
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... , does in my humble opinion sharpen and envenom it to a greater degree . Liberty , if I understand it at all , is a general principle , and the clear The right of all the subjects within the realm , LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL .
... , does in my humble opinion sharpen and envenom it to a greater degree . Liberty , if I understand it at all , is a general principle , and the clear The right of all the subjects within the realm , LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL .
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... opinion , that during the prevalence of such dispositions , all struggle rather inflamed than lessened the distemper of the public councils . Finding such resistance to be considered as factious by most within - doors , and by very many ...
... opinion , that during the prevalence of such dispositions , all struggle rather inflamed than lessened the distemper of the public councils . Finding such resistance to be considered as factious by most within - doors , and by very many ...
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... opinion that their exertions in this desperate case might be of some service . They thought , that by contracting the sphere of its application , they might lessen the malignity of an evil principle . Perhaps they were in the right ...
... opinion that their exertions in this desperate case might be of some service . They thought , that by contracting the sphere of its application , they might lessen the malignity of an evil principle . Perhaps they were in the right ...
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... opinion of me for my declining to participate in this joy , and my reject- ing all share whatsoever in such a triumph . I am too old , too stiff in my inveterate partialities , to be ready at all the fashionable evolutions of opinion ...
... opinion of me for my declining to participate in this joy , and my reject- ing all share whatsoever in such a triumph . I am too old , too stiff in my inveterate partialities , to be ready at all the fashionable evolutions of opinion ...
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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.