The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 |
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Page 27
... province exercising the same tyranny , and grinding the people by an oppression the more severely felt as it is near them , and exercised by base and subordinate persons . For the gross of the people , they are considered as a mere herd ...
... province exercising the same tyranny , and grinding the people by an oppression the more severely felt as it is near them , and exercised by base and subordinate persons . For the gross of the people , they are considered as a mere herd ...
Page 77
... province of the judgment . So long as we are conversant with the sensible qualities of things , hardly any more than the imagina- tion seems concerned ; little more also than the imagination seems concerned when the passions are ...
... province of the judgment . So long as we are conversant with the sensible qualities of things , hardly any more than the imagina- tion seems concerned ; little more also than the imagination seems concerned when the passions are ...
Page 328
... province of America must be traversed , and must be subdued . I do not entertain the least doubt but this could be done . We might , I think , without much difficulty , have destroyed our colonies . This destruc- tion might be effected ...
... province of America must be traversed , and must be subdued . I do not entertain the least doubt but this could be done . We might , I think , without much difficulty , have destroyed our colonies . This destruc- tion might be effected ...
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