The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... evil and dangerous , even though the instruments of effecting such purposes had been merely of a neutral quality . But it really appears to me , that the means which this act employs are , at least , as exceptionable as the end . Permit ...
... evil and dangerous , even though the instruments of effecting such purposes had been merely of a neutral quality . But it really appears to me , that the means which this act employs are , at least , as exceptionable as the end . Permit ...
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... evil example ( which must in their nature be daily and ordinary incidents ) can be ad- mitted as a reason for such mighty operations . But the true danger is , when liberty is nibbled away , for expedients , and by parts . The Habeas ...
... evil example ( which must in their nature be daily and ordinary incidents ) can be ad- mitted as a reason for such mighty operations . But the true danger is , when liberty is nibbled away , for expedients , and by parts . The Habeas ...
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... evil principle . Perhaps they were in the right . But when my opinion was so very clearly to the contrary , for the reasons I have just stated , I am sure my attendance would have been ridiculous . I must add in further explanation of ...
... evil principle . Perhaps they were in the right . But when my opinion was so very clearly to the contrary , for the reasons I have just stated , I am sure my attendance would have been ridiculous . I must add in further explanation of ...
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... evil , ) trouble- some discussions are brought to some sort of adjustment ; and every hot controversy is not a civil war . But , if the colonies ( to bring the general matter home to us ) could see , that , in Great Britain , the mass ...
... evil , ) trouble- some discussions are brought to some sort of adjustment ; and every hot controversy is not a civil war . But , if the colonies ( to bring the general matter home to us ) could see , that , in Great Britain , the mass ...
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... evil to be lessened . " It is not only a private blessing of the first order , but the vital spring and energy of the state itself , which has just so much life and vigour as there is liberty in it . But whether liberty be advantageous ...
... evil to be lessened . " It is not only a private blessing of the first order , but the vital spring and energy of the state itself , which has just so much life and vigour as there is liberty in it . But whether liberty be advantageous ...
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