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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... opinion is better than his , he will voluntarily come over to you , and without compulsion ; and then your law would be unnecessary ; but if he is not so con- vinced , he must know that it is his duty in this point to sacrifice his ...
... opinion is better than his , he will voluntarily come over to you , and without compulsion ; and then your law would be unnecessary ; but if he is not so con- vinced , he must know that it is his duty in this point to sacrifice his ...
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... opinion . If the people are in an error , to inform them is not only fair but charitable ; to drive them is a strain of the most manifest injustice . If not the right , the presumption at least is ever on the side of possession . Are ...
... opinion . If the people are in an error , to inform them is not only fair but charitable ; to drive them is a strain of the most manifest injustice . If not the right , the presumption at least is ever on the side of possession . Are ...
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... opinion of to - day to your persuasion of yesterday ? If we must resort to prepossessions for the ground of opinion , it is in the nature of man rather to defer to the wisdom of times past , whose weakness is not before his eyes , than ...
... opinion of to - day to your persuasion of yesterday ? If we must resort to prepossessions for the ground of opinion , it is in the nature of man rather to defer to the wisdom of times past , whose weakness is not before his eyes , than ...
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... opinion only of a private man , or set of men . If there be no reason , there is at least some consistency , in its proceedings . Commanding to constancy , it does nothing but that of which it sets an example itself . But an opinion at ...
... opinion only of a private man , or set of men . If there be no reason , there is at least some consistency , in its proceedings . Commanding to constancy , it does nothing but that of which it sets an example itself . But an opinion at ...
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... opinion at least , before the change : what benefits society then had , they partook of them all . They are now ... opinions as subversive of society in general , they will surely end by abandoning the broad part of the argument , and ...
... opinion at least , before the change : what benefits society then had , they partook of them all . They are now ... opinions as subversive of society in general , they will surely end by abandoning the broad part of the argument , and ...
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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.