The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... appears to me of little or no importance . I published my thoughts on that Constitution , that my countrymen might be enabled to estimate the wis- dom of the plans which were held out to their imita- tion . I conceived that the true ...
... appears to me of little or no importance . I published my thoughts on that Constitution , that my countrymen might be enabled to estimate the wis- dom of the plans which were held out to their imita- tion . I conceived that the true ...
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... appears right : at least , it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments , - success . The indulgence of a sort of undefined hope , an ob- scure confidence , that some lurking remains of vir- tue ...
... appears right : at least , it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments , - success . The indulgence of a sort of undefined hope , an ob- scure confidence , that some lurking remains of vir- tue ...
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... appear more specious than those by which at first so many were deluded and disarmed . They flatter themselves that the extreme misery brought upon the people by their folly will at last open the eyes of the multitude , if not of their ...
... appear more specious than those by which at first so many were deluded and disarmed . They flatter themselves that the extreme misery brought upon the people by their folly will at last open the eyes of the multitude , if not of their ...
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... appears to them only in the form of censure and reproach . Great distress has never hith- erto taught , and whilst the world lasts it never will teach , wise lessons to any part of mankind . Men are as much blinded by the extremes of ...
... appears to them only in the form of censure and reproach . Great distress has never hith- erto taught , and whilst the world lasts it never will teach , wise lessons to any part of mankind . Men are as much blinded by the extremes of ...
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... appears more odious even than their crimes . The horrors of the fifth and sixth of October were less detestable than the festival of the fourteenth of July . There are situations ( God forbid I should think that of the 5th and 6th of ...
... appears more odious even than their crimes . The horrors of the fifth and sixth of October were less detestable than the festival of the fourteenth of July . There are situations ( God forbid I should think that of the 5th and 6th of ...
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