The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... cause of mankind . - A rash recourse to force is not to be justified in a state of real weakness . Such attempts bring on dis- grace , and in their failure discountenance and dis- courage more rational endeavors . But reason is to be ...
... cause of mankind . - A rash recourse to force is not to be justified in a state of real weakness . Such attempts bring on dis- grace , and in their failure discountenance and dis- courage more rational endeavors . But reason is to be ...
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... of the oppressors of France , has been among the causes which have helped to bring on the common ruin of king and people . There is no safety for on- est men , but by believing all possible evil of OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY . 7.
... of the oppressors of France , has been among the causes which have helped to bring on the common ruin of king and people . There is no safety for on- est men , but by believing all possible evil of OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY . 7.
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... cause with a just prince , dethroned by traitors and rebels , who proscribe , plunder , confiscate , and in every way cruelly oppress their fellow - citizens , in my opinion is to forget what is due to the honor and to the rights of all ...
... cause with a just prince , dethroned by traitors and rebels , who proscribe , plunder , confiscate , and in every way cruelly oppress their fellow - citizens , in my opinion is to forget what is due to the honor and to the rights of all ...
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... cause more new to you than to us , who have been long since satiated with them . We continue , as in the two last ages , to read , more generally than I be- lieve is now done on the Continent , the authors of sound antiquity . These ...
... cause more new to you than to us , who have been long since satiated with them . We continue , as in the two last ages , to read , more generally than I be- lieve is now done on the Continent , the authors of sound antiquity . These ...
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... cause to imagine that I prefer the conduct of those who have retired from this warfare to your behavior , who , with a courage and constancy almost supernatural , have struggled against tyranny , and kept the field to the last . You see ...
... cause to imagine that I prefer the conduct of those who have retired from this warfare to your behavior , who , with a courage and constancy almost supernatural , have struggled against tyranny , and kept the field to the last . You see ...
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