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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Edmund Burke. schism in the British nation . Those who do not wish for such a separation , would not dissolve that cement of recipro cal esteem and regard , which can alone bind together the parts of this great fabric . It ought to be our ...
Edmund Burke. schism in the British nation . Those who do not wish for such a separation , would not dissolve that cement of recipro cal esteem and regard , which can alone bind together the parts of this great fabric . It ought to be our ...
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... wish them , in this grave matter , and if peace is not wholly removed from their hearts , to consider seriously , first , that to criminate and recriminate never yet was the road to re- conciliation , in any difference amongst men . In ...
... wish them , in this grave matter , and if peace is not wholly removed from their hearts , to consider seriously , first , that to criminate and recriminate never yet was the road to re- conciliation , in any difference amongst men . In ...
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... wish or congratulation , we ought to be pretty 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 ...
... wish or congratulation , we ought to be pretty 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 ...
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... wish , that terms of accommodation never should be proposed to our enemy , except when they must be attributed solely to our fears . It has happened , let me say unfortunately , that we read of his Majesty's commission for making peace ...
... wish , that terms of accommodation never should be proposed to our enemy , except when they must be attributed solely to our fears . It has happened , let me say unfortunately , that we read of his Majesty's commission for making peace ...
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... wishes to keep the whole body of this authority perfect and entire as I found it : and to keep it so , not for our advantage solely ; but principally for the sake of those , on whose account all just authority exists ; I mean the people ...
... wishes to keep the whole body of this authority perfect and entire as I found it : and to keep it so , not for our advantage solely ; but principally for the sake of those , on whose account all just authority exists ; I mean the people ...
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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.