The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... never 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 ...
... never 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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... never intended to execute those declarations in their rigor . This made men careless in their opposition , and remiss in early precaution . By holding out this fallacious hope , the impostors de- luded sometimes one description of men ...
... never intended to execute those declarations in their rigor . This made men careless in their opposition , and remiss in early precaution . By holding out this fallacious hope , the impostors de- luded sometimes one description of men ...
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... never can repent . The fraudulent have no resource but in fraud . They have no other goods in their magazine . They have no virtue or wisdom in their minds , to which , in a disappointment concern- ing the profitable effects of fraud ...
... never can repent . The fraudulent have no resource but in fraud . They have no other goods in their magazine . They have no virtue or wisdom in their minds , to which , in a disappointment concern- ing the profitable effects of fraud ...
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... 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 misery as by the extremes of prosperity . Desperate situations produce desperate ...
... 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 misery as by the extremes of prosperity . Desperate situations produce desperate ...
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... never can willingly abandon it . They may be distressed in the midst of all their power ; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief . When did distress ever oblige a prince to abdicate his authority ? And what ...
... never can willingly abandon it . They may be distressed in the midst of all their power ; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief . When did distress ever oblige a prince to abdicate his authority ? And what ...
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