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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... sure that I do not speak of my opposition , which in all circumstances must be so ; but that of men of the greatest wisdom and authority in the nation . Everything proposed against America is supposed of course to be in favour of Great ...
... sure that I do not speak of my opposition , which in all circumstances must be so ; but that of men of the greatest wisdom and authority in the nation . Everything proposed against America is supposed of course to be in favour of Great ...
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... sure my attendance would have been ridiculous . I must add in further explanation of my conduct , that , far from softening the features of such a principle , and thereby removing any part of the popular odium or natural terrors ...
... sure my attendance would have been ridiculous . I must add in further explanation of my conduct , that , far from softening the features of such a principle , and thereby removing any part of the popular odium or natural terrors ...
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... sure that we are engaged in a rational pursuit . Phrensy does not become a slighter distemper on account of the number of those who may be infected with it . Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less , because they are ...
... sure that we are engaged in a rational pursuit . Phrensy does not become a slighter distemper on account of the number of those who may be infected with it . Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less , because they are ...
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... harmony with Great Britain . Thinking so , ( perhaps erroneously , ) but being honestly of that opinion , I was at the same time very sure , that the authority , of which I was so jealous 26 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL .
... harmony with Great Britain . Thinking so , ( perhaps erroneously , ) but being honestly of that opinion , I was at the same time very sure , that the authority , of which I was so jealous 26 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL .
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... sure symptom of an ill - conducted state is the propensity of the people to resort to them . But when subjects , by a long course of such ill conduct , are once thoroughly inflamed , and the state itself violently distempered , the ...
... sure symptom of an ill - conducted state is the propensity of the people to resort to them . But when subjects , by a long course of such ill conduct , are once thoroughly inflamed , and the state itself violently distempered , the ...
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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.