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Reflections on the Revolution in France , in a Letter . By the Right Honourable Edmund Burke , [ Continued from our ... ho- nour ; neither infolent nor fervile in their manners and conduct . They feemed to me rather a superior class ; a ...
Reflections on the Revolution in France , in a Letter . By the Right Honourable Edmund Burke , [ Continued from our ... ho- nour ; neither infolent nor fervile in their manners and conduct . They feemed to me rather a superior class ; a ...
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... right honourable friend ; but he could not agree with his right ho- nourable friend , that a ftate was not impowered to enquire into the reli- gious opinions of all who lived under its protection . It had an uncon- troulable ...
... right honourable friend ; but he could not agree with his right ho- nourable friend , that a ftate was not impowered to enquire into the reli- gious opinions of all who lived under its protection . It had an uncon- troulable ...
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... right honourable gentle- man , by withdrawing his amendment , he rejoiced at having propofed it , be- caufe what he exceedingly defired , was to have heard from the right ho- nourable gentleman fomething of the very nature of thofe ...
... right honourable gentle- man , by withdrawing his amendment , he rejoiced at having propofed it , be- caufe what he exceedingly defired , was to have heard from the right ho- nourable gentleman fomething of the very nature of thofe ...
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... ho nourable gentleman who moved the claufe was , that persons who were in ... proper confent ; because all ftock- holders may , at fome future period , have ... right which they had to that profit . At length , the Houfe divided on the ...
... ho nourable gentleman who moved the claufe was , that persons who were in ... proper confent ; because all ftock- holders may , at fome future period , have ... right which they had to that profit . At length , the Houfe divided on the ...
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... right honourable gentleman was so jealous of his ho- nour , the Houfe ought to be equally jealous of theirs , and not hold out to the Public , in the preamble of the bill , what they knew to be falfe in fact . He should therefore move ...
... right honourable gentleman was so jealous of his ho- nour , the Houfe ought to be equally jealous of theirs , and not hold out to the Public , in the preamble of the bill , what they knew to be falfe in fact . He should therefore move ...
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Page 143 - Political arrangement, as it is a work for social ends, is to be only wrought by social means. There mind must conspire with mind. Time is required to produce that union of minds which alone can produce all the good we aim at. Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Page 23 - Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs, satyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical non-descript.
Page 79 - They can see, without pain or grudging, an archbishop precede a duke. They can see a bishop of Durham, or a bishop of Winchester, in possession of ten thousand pounds a year; and cannot conceive why it is in worse hands than estates to the like amount in the hands of this earl, or that squire...
Page 319 - Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every man, has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other man the free exercise of the same rights ; and these limits are determinable only by the law.
Page 80 - Toleration, therefore, places itself, not between man and man, nor between church and church, nor between one denomination of religion and another, but between God and man; between the being who worships, and the being who is worshipped; and by the same act of assumed authority by which it tolerates man to pay his worship, it presumptuously and blasphemously sets itself up to tolerate the Almighty to receive it.
Page 24 - It is a law against every law of nature, and nature herself calls for its destruction. Establish family justice and aristocracy falls. By the aristocratical law of primogenitureship, in a family of six children, five are exposed. Aristocracy has never but one child. The rest are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the cannibal for prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repast.
Page 156 - Here we thought he was caught as in a trap, for he had scarce room to turn ; when a servant, who had a gun, standing directly over him, fired at his head, and the animal fell immediately, to all appearance dead. All those on foot, now jumped in with...
Page 119 - The members of the first, deemed the most sacred, had it for their province to study the principles of religion ; to perform its functions ; and to cultivate the sciences. They were the priests, the instructors, and philosophers of the nation.
Page 155 - I avoided without difficulty ; but I am happy to this day, in the reflection that I did not strike it.
Page 154 - ... side ; and while he engages the elephant's attention upon the horse, the footman behind gives him a drawn stroke just above the heel, or what in man is called the tendon of Achilles.