The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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Page vi
... mind of Mr. Burke political principles were not objects of barren speculation . Wisdom in him was always practical . Whatever his understanding adopted as truth , mnade its way to his heart , and sunk deep into it ; and his ardent and ...
... mind of Mr. Burke political principles were not objects of barren speculation . Wisdom in him was always practical . Whatever his understanding adopted as truth , mnade its way to his heart , and sunk deep into it ; and his ardent and ...
Page vii
... mind like his to grapple with them . His ardent zeal , and unwearied perseverance , were not more than equal to the task . He well knew , that the impunity of Indian delinquency was demanded by inte- rest too weighty and extensive , and ...
... mind like his to grapple with them . His ardent zeal , and unwearied perseverance , were not more than equal to the task . He well knew , that the impunity of Indian delinquency was demanded by inte- rest too weighty and extensive , and ...
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... minds of men , at the same time that novelty is still attended with the suspicions , that always will be attached to whatever is new ; we have been anxiously careful in a business , which seems to combine the objections both to what is ...
... minds of men , at the same time that novelty is still attended with the suspicions , that always will be attached to whatever is new ; we have been anxiously careful in a business , which seems to combine the objections both to what is ...
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... mind to recollect its faculties , to rein- force its reason , and to have recourse to fixed principles , but , by compelling an instant and tumultuous decision , too often obliges men to decide in a manner , that calm judgment would ...
... mind to recollect its faculties , to rein- force its reason , and to have recourse to fixed principles , but , by compelling an instant and tumultuous decision , too often obliges men to decide in a manner , that calm judgment would ...
Page 45
... minds . If well em- ployed , and but a little improved , the East - India Company possessed an advantage unknown before to the chief of a re- mote government . In the most remote parts of the world , and in the minutest parts of a ...
... minds . If well em- ployed , and but a little improved , the East - India Company possessed an advantage unknown before to the chief of a re- mote government . In the most remote parts of the world , and in the minutest parts of a ...
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