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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... liberty or good government . This is the present condition of my mind ; and this is my apology for not going as fast as others may choose to go in this business . I do not by any means reject the proposi tions - much less do I condemn ...
... liberty or good government . This is the present condition of my mind ; and this is my apology for not going as fast as others may choose to go in this business . I do not by any means reject the proposi tions - much less do I condemn ...
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... liberty . Not trusting , however , to the activity of the magistrate acting officially , the law has invited all voluntary informers by considerable rewards , and even pressed involuntary informers into this service by the dread of ...
... liberty . Not trusting , however , to the activity of the magistrate acting officially , the law has invited all voluntary informers by considerable rewards , and even pressed involuntary informers into this service by the dread of ...
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... liberty which by a new political chemistry was to be ex- tracted out of a system of oppression . : Now as to the other point , that the objects of these laws suffer voluntarily this seems to me to be an insult rather than an argument ...
... liberty which by a new political chemistry was to be ex- tracted out of a system of oppression . : Now as to the other point , that the objects of these laws suffer voluntarily this seems to me to be an insult rather than an argument ...
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... liberty of change , it does not leave to you even a liberty of perseverance . Is then no improvement to be brought into society ? Un- doubtedly ; but not by compulsion , but by encouragement , -but by countenance , -favour , -privileges ...
... liberty of change , it does not leave to you even a liberty of perseverance . Is then no improvement to be brought into society ? Un- doubtedly ; but not by compulsion , but by encouragement , -but by countenance , -favour , -privileges ...
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... liberty , were citadels for keeping us in order as a conquered people . These things play the Jacobin game to a nicety . Indeed , my dear Sir , there is not a single par- ticular in the Francis Street declamations which has not , to ...
... liberty , were citadels for keeping us in order as a conquered people . These things play the Jacobin game to a nicety . Indeed , my dear Sir , there is not a single par- ticular in the Francis Street declamations which has not , to ...
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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.