The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Miscellaneous speeches, letters, and fragments. Abridgment of English history, etc. With a general indexG. Bell & sons, 1890 - Political science |
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... followed in a matter of itself as involved and intricate as it is important . The first and most capital consideration with regard to this , as to every object , is the extent of it ; and here it is necessary to premise , this system of ...
... followed in a matter of itself as involved and intricate as it is important . The first and most capital consideration with regard to this , as to every object , is the extent of it ; and here it is necessary to premise , this system of ...
Page 127
... followed by practice , subverts the constitu- tion . They have the right of electing , you have a right of expelling ; they of choosing , you of judging , and only of judging , of the choice . What bounds shall be set to the freedom of ...
... followed by practice , subverts the constitu- tion . They have the right of electing , you have a right of expelling ; they of choosing , you of judging , and only of judging , of the choice . What bounds shall be set to the freedom of ...
Page 136
... followed by the whole flock . This is the style of all free countries . -Multum in Fabia valet hic , valet ille Velinâ ; Cuilibet hic fasces dabit eripietque curule . These spirits , each of which informs and governs his own little orb ...
... followed by the whole flock . This is the style of all free countries . -Multum in Fabia valet hic , valet ille Velinâ ; Cuilibet hic fasces dabit eripietque curule . These spirits , each of which informs and governs his own little orb ...
Page 192
... followed in this commerce , are said to have done long before them . It is true that when we consider the short interval between the universal deluge and that period , and compare it with the first settlement of men at such a distance ...
... followed in this commerce , are said to have done long before them . It is true that when we consider the short interval between the universal deluge and that period , and compare it with the first settlement of men at such a distance ...
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... followed by an exclusion from all the benefits of civil community ; and it was accordingly the most dreaded of all punishments . This ample authority was in general usefully exerted ; by the interposition of the Druids differ- ences ...
... followed by an exclusion from all the benefits of civil community ; and it was accordingly the most dreaded of all punishments . This ample authority was in general usefully exerted ; by the interposition of the Druids differ- ences ...
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Page 107 - And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.