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" When popular discontents have been very prevalent, it may well be affirmed and supported that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution or in the conduct of government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong,... "
A Short History of the British Empire During the Last Twenty Months: Viz ... - Page 44
by Francis Plowden - 1794 - 386 pages
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Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents ....

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1770 - 140 pages
...be affirmed and fupported, that there has been generally fomething found amifs in the conftitution, or in the conduct of Government. The people have no...in diforder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State, it is far otherwife. They certainly...
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Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1784 - 136 pages
...be affirmed and fupported, that there has been generally fomething found amifs in the conftitution, or in the conduct of Government. The people have no...in diforder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State, it is far otherwife. They certainly...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...be affirmed and fupported, that there has been generally fomething found amifs in the conftitution, or in the conduct of government. The people have no...in diforder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the ftate, it is far otherwife. They certainly...
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The Works of ... Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 462 pages
...be affirmed and fupported, that there has been generally fomething found amifs in the conftitution, or in the conduct of government. The people have no...intereft in diforder, When they do wrong, it is their errour, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the ftate, it is far otherwife. They certainly...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 46

1827 - 698 pages
...amiss in the constitution, or in the conduct of govern' ment. The people have no interest in disorder. When they ' do wrong, it is their error, not their crime. But with the ' governing part of the state it is far otherwise,' — and he quotes the saying of Sully- — ' Pour la populace ce n'est...
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The School of Wisdom

Readers - 1803 - 250 pages
...fupported, that there has been generally fomething found amifs in the conftitution or in the con Jutft of government. The people have no intereft in diforder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But -with the governing party of the flate, it is far otherwife. They certainly...
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Observations on the character, customs, and superstitions of the Irish

Daniel Dewar - Ireland - 1812 - 372 pages
...in the con" stitution, or in the conduct of government. The people " have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong it " is their error, not their crime. But with the govern" ing part of the state, it is far otherwise. They cer" tainly may act by ill design, as well...
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Observations on the State of Ireland: Principally Directed to Its ..., Volume 1

John Christian Curwen - Agricultural laborers - 1818 - 468 pages
...amiss in the constitution or in the conduct of Government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, not their crime : but with the governing part of the state, it is far otherwise ; they certainly may act by ill design as well as by mistake." 140 Sale...
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The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Volume 4

English periodicals - 1837 - 680 pages
...with the constitution, or " in the conduct of government ; the people have no interest " in disorder ; when they do wrong it is their error, not their " crime; but with the governing part of the state it is far " otherwise." To Mr. Stanley's mind, it was sufficiently clear, that the disturbances...
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Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of ..., Volume 1

Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1839 - 232 pages
...amiss in the constitution, or in the conduct of government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, not their crime. But * The Thoughts on the Causes of the Present Discontents was published in 1770 — when Mr. Burke was...
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