The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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Page 7
... 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 , some degree of shame , might exist in the ...
... 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 , some degree of shame , might exist in the ...
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... possessed to a degree little short of mad- ness . It is from the same deranged , eccentric vanity , that this , the insane Socrates of the National Assem- bly , was impelled to publish a mad confession of his mad faults , and to attempt ...
... possessed to a degree little short of mad- ness . It is from the same deranged , eccentric vanity , that this , the insane Socrates of the National Assem- bly , was impelled to publish a mad confession of his mad faults , and to attempt ...
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... possess in France any persons of a capacity to serve the French monarchy in the same manner in which Monk served the monarchy of England . The army which Monk commanded had been formed by Cromwell to a perfection of discipline which ...
... possess in France any persons of a capacity to serve the French monarchy in the same manner in which Monk served the monarchy of England . The army which Monk commanded had been formed by Cromwell to a perfection of discipline which ...
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... possessed our principles in your old forms in as great a perfection as we did originally . If your States agreed ( as I think they did ) with your circumstances , they were best for you . As you had a Constitution formed upon principles ...
... possessed our principles in your old forms in as great a perfection as we did originally . If your States agreed ( as I think they did ) with your circumstances , they were best for you . As you had a Constitution formed upon principles ...
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... possesses under the letter of our Consti- tution . Every degree of power necessary to the state , and not destructive to the rational and moral freedom of individuals , to that personal liberty and personal security which contribute so ...
... possesses under the letter of our Consti- tution . Every degree of power necessary to the state , and not destructive to the rational and moral freedom of individuals , to that personal liberty and personal security which contribute so ...
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