The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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Page 5
... reason is to be hazarded , though it may be perverted by craft and sophistry ; for reason can suffer no loss nor shame , nor can it impede any useful plan of future policy . In the unavoidable uncertainty as to the effect , which OF THE ...
... reason is to be hazarded , though it may be perverted by craft and sophistry ; for reason can suffer no loss nor shame , nor can it impede any useful plan of future policy . In the unavoidable uncertainty as to the effect , which OF THE ...
Page 6
... reason to those that ought to be reasonable creatures , and to take our chance for the event . We cannot act on these anomalies in the minds of men . I do not conceive that the persons who have contrived these things can be made much ...
... reason to those that ought to be reasonable creatures , and to take our chance for the event . We cannot act on these anomalies in the minds of men . I do not conceive that the persons who have contrived these things can be made much ...
Page 10
... reason , which 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 ...
... reason , which 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 ...
Page 18
... reasons for thinking the Emperor's government would be more mischiev- ous or more oppressive to human nature than that of the Turk ; yet , on mere motives of policy , that prince has interposed , with the threat of all his force , to ...
... reasons for thinking the Emperor's government would be more mischiev- ous or more oppressive to human nature than that of the Turk ; yet , on mere motives of policy , that prince has interposed , with the threat of all his force , to ...
Page 24
... a deranged understanding : for where there is no sound reason , there can be no real virtue ; and madness is ever vicious and malignant . The Assembly proceeds on maxims the very reverse of these 24 LETTER TO A MEMBER.
... a deranged understanding : for where there is no sound reason , there can be no real virtue ; and madness is ever vicious and malignant . The Assembly proceeds on maxims the very reverse of these 24 LETTER TO A MEMBER.
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