The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 6Little, Brown,, 1866 - Great Britain |
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... a situation the most important for command that it would be possible for her anywhere to possess . To remove this terror , ( even if the Regicides should carry their point , ) and to give us perfect 18 LETTERS ON A REGICIDE PEACE .
... a situation the most important for command that it would be possible for her anywhere to possess . To remove this terror , ( even if the Regicides should carry their point , ) and to give us perfect 18 LETTERS ON A REGICIDE PEACE .
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Edmund Burke. carry their point , ) and to give us perfect repose with regard to their empire , whatever they may acquire , or whomsoever they might destroy , he raises a doubt " whether France will not be ruined by retaining these ...
Edmund Burke. carry their point , ) and to give us perfect repose with regard to their empire , whatever they may acquire , or whomsoever they might destroy , he raises a doubt " whether France will not be ruined by retaining these ...
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... carrying the joke a great deal too far . I cannot yet think that the armies of the Allies were of this way of thinking , and that , when they evacuated all these countries , it was a stratagem of war to decoy France into ruin , or that ...
... carrying the joke a great deal too far . I cannot yet think that the armies of the Allies were of this way of thinking , and that , when they evacuated all these countries , it was a stratagem of war to decoy France into ruin , or that ...
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... carry on a war of skepticism . But the fact is , this expression of doubt is only a mode of putting an opinion , when it is not the drift of the author to overturn the doubt . Otherwise , the doubt is never stated as the author's own ...
... carry on a war of skepticism . But the fact is , this expression of doubt is only a mode of putting an opinion , when it is not the drift of the author to overturn the doubt . Otherwise , the doubt is never stated as the author's own ...
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... carried on by England upon one side and by Louis the Sixteenth on the other . As to our share of that war , let reverence to the dead and respect to the living prevent us from reading lessons of this kind at their expense . I don't know ...
... carried on by England upon one side and by Louis the Sixteenth on the other . As to our share of that war , let reverence to the dead and respect to the living prevent us from reading lessons of this kind at their expense . I don't know ...
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Page 49 - 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 compell'd Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence.
Page 347 - 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 324 - It would be hard to point out any error more truly subversive of all the order and beauty, of all the peace and happiness, of human society, than the position, that any body of men have a right to make what laws they please ; or that laws can derive any authority from their institution merely and independent of the quality of the subject-matter. No arguments of policy, reason of state, or preservation of the constitution, can be pleaded in favour of such a practice.
Page 64 - As fine as daubers' hands can make it, In hopes that strangers may mistake it ; We think it both a shame and sin To quit the good old Angel Inn.
Page 324 - VI. 21 should bo themselves the chief sufferers by it; because it would be made against the principle of a superior law, which it is not in the power of any community, or of the whole race of man, to alter...
Page 381 - ... strength, which, to that hour, Ireland was never so happy as to enjoy. My sanguine hopes are blasted, and I must consign my feelings, on that terrible disappointment, to the same patience in which I have been obliged to bury the vexation I suffered on the defeat of the other great, just, and honorable causes in which I have had some share ; and which have given more of dignity, than of peace and advantage, to a long laborious life.
Page 180 - ... it was not because a positive law authorized what was then done, but because the freedom and safety of the subject, the origin and cause of all laws, required a proceeding paramount and superior to them. At that ever memorable and instructive period, the letter of the law was superseded in favor of the substance of liberty.
Page 348 - ... provided also, that no person whatsoever shall have or enjoy the benefit of this article, that shall neglect or refuse to take the oath of allegiance, made by act of parliament in England, in the first year of the reign of their present majesties, when thereunto required.
Page 223 - Government influence ; that the business of a minister, or of those who acted as such, had been still further to contract the narrowness of men's ideas, to confirm inveterate prejudices, to inflame vulgar passions, and to abet all sorts of popular absurdities...
Page 178 - That the establishment of such a power in America will utterly ruin our finances (though its certain effect) is the smallest part of our concern. It will become an apt, powerful, and certain engine for the destruction of our freedom here.