“The” Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 2George Dearborn, 1834 - Great Britain |
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... become possessed in this country of the same power which their allies in the very next to us have so perfidiously usurped , and so outrageously abused ? Is it inhuman to prevent , if possible , the spilling their blood , or imprudent to ...
... become possessed in this country of the same power which their allies in the very next to us have so perfidiously usurped , and so outrageously abused ? Is it inhuman to prevent , if possible , the spilling their blood , or imprudent to ...
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... become less sensible to a long - possessed benefit , from the very circumstance that it is become habitual . Specious , untried , ambiguous prospects of new advantage recommend themselves to the spirit of adventure , which more or less ...
... become less sensible to a long - possessed benefit , from the very circumstance that it is become habitual . Specious , untried , ambiguous prospects of new advantage recommend themselves to the spirit of adventure , which more or less ...
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... become totally useless ; that under the system of policy which was then pursued , the Americans could have no sort of security for their laws or liberties , or for any part of them ; and , that the very circumstance of our freedom would ...
... become totally useless ; that under the system of policy which was then pursued , the Americans could have no sort of security for their laws or liberties , or for any part of them ; and , that the very circumstance of our freedom would ...
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... become an advocate for an exchange of mischiefs ; no principle of his could compel him to justify the setting up in the place of a mitigated monarchy , a new and far more despotic power , under which there is no trace of liberty ...
... become an advocate for an exchange of mischiefs ; no principle of his could compel him to justify the setting up in the place of a mitigated monarchy , a new and far more despotic power , under which there is no trace of liberty ...
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... become the willing , but still the proud and thoughtless instrument and victim of another domination . Neither did that people despise , or hate , or fear their nobility . On the contrary , they valued themselves on the gene- rous ...
... become the willing , but still the proud and thoughtless instrument and victim of another domination . Neither did that people despise , or hate , or fear their nobility . On the contrary , they valued themselves on the gene- rous ...
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Page 209 - I am alone ; I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my Lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard season I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world.
Page 209 - I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me are gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors.
Page 209 - Sovereign Lord the King, and his faithful subjects, the Lords and Commons of this realm — the triple cord which no man can break ; the solemn, sworn, constitutional frank-pledge of this nation ; the firm...
Page 421 - THE Roman Catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland : or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles the Second...
Page 41 - The constitution of a country being once settled upon some compact, tacit or expressed, there is no power existing of force to alter it, without the breach of the covenant, or the consent of all the parties. Such is the nature of a contract.
Page 328 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law, but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compelled, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence.
Page 186 - But in the case of the farmer and the labourer, their interests are always the same, and it is absolutely impossible that their free contracts can be onerous to either party.
Page 206 - As there generally is some resemblance of character to create these relations, the favourite was in all likelihood much such another as his master. The first of those immoderate grants was not taken from the ancient demesne of the Crown, but from the recent confiscation of the ancient nobility of the land. The lion having sucked the blood of his prey, threw the offal carcass to the jackal in waiting.
Page 213 - I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age ; and I loved and cultivated him accordingly. He was much in my heart, and I believe I was in his to the very last beat. It was after his trial at Portsmouth that he gave me this picture.
Page 38 - What is government more than the management of the affairs of a Nation? It is not, and from its nature cannot be, the property of any particular man or family, but of the whole community, at whose...