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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... principles of reason and equity , and the general sense of mankind . These they are bound to obey and follow ; and rather to enlarge and en- lighten law by the liberality of legislative reason , than to fetter and bind their higher ...
... principles of reason and equity , and the general sense of mankind . These they are bound to obey and follow ; and rather to enlarge and en- lighten law by the liberality of legislative reason , than to fetter and bind their higher ...
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Edmund Burke. nor prudently contend with what I know is irresistible . Preserving my principles unshaken , I reserve ... principle . Perhaps they were in the right . But when my opinion was so very clearly to the contrary , for the ...
Edmund Burke. nor prudently contend with what I know is irresistible . Preserving my principles unshaken , I reserve ... principle . Perhaps they were in the right . But when my opinion was so very clearly to the contrary , for the ...
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... principle of wise government . What prece- dents were established , and what principles overturned , ( I will not say of English privilege , but of general justice , ) in the Boston Port , the Massachusetts Charter , the Military Bill ...
... principle of wise government . What prece- dents were established , and what principles overturned , ( I will not say of English privilege , but of general justice , ) in the Boston Port , the Massachusetts Charter , the Military Bill ...
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... principles which they never examined ; and we permitted to them local pri vileges , without asking how they agreed with that legislative authority . Modes of administration were formed in an in- sensible and very unsystematic manner ...
... principles which they never examined ; and we permitted to them local pri vileges , without asking how they agreed with that legislative authority . Modes of administration were formed in an in- sensible and very unsystematic manner ...
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... principles of a parliament to which they approached every day more and more nearly . Those who think them- selves wiser than Providence , and stronger than the course of nature , may complain of all this variation , on the one side or ...
... principles of a parliament to which they approached every day more and more nearly . Those who think them- selves wiser than Providence , and stronger than the course of nature , may complain of all this variation , on the one side or ...
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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.