The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 5Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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Page 5
... morality and policy , but who , under every discouragement , was faithful to public duty and to private friendship . I shall then probably be dead . I am sure I do not wish to live to see such things . But whilst I LETTER TO THE DUKE OF ...
... morality and policy , but who , under every discouragement , was faithful to public duty and to private friendship . I shall then probably be dead . I am sure I do not wish to live to see such things . But whilst I LETTER TO THE DUKE OF ...
Page 12
... moral prudence called for the discouragement of so- cieties formed for the increase of popular pretensions to power and direction . 3. When the proceedings of this society of the Friends of the People , as well as others acting in the ...
... moral prudence called for the discouragement of so- cieties formed for the increase of popular pretensions to power and direction . 3. When the proceedings of this society of the Friends of the People , as well as others acting in the ...
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... morals , of religion , and , I may say , of human society itself , to carry the doctrines of its liberty higher than ever it has been known by its most extravagant assertors , even in France , gave oc- casion to very serious reflections ...
... morals , of religion , and , I may say , of human society itself , to carry the doctrines of its liberty higher than ever it has been known by its most extravagant assertors , even in France , gave oc- casion to very serious reflections ...
Page 31
... moral forum some of these powers certainly deserve all the ill he said of them ; but the political effect aimed at , evidently , was to turn our indignation from France , with whom we were at war , upon Russia , or Prussia , or Austria ...
... moral forum some of these powers certainly deserve all the ill he said of them ; but the political effect aimed at , evidently , was to turn our indignation from France , with whom we were at war , upon Russia , or Prussia , or Austria ...
Page 54
... moral character ; not their inferi- ors in the proofs they have given of zeal and indus try in the service of their country . Without deny- ing to these gentlemen the respect and consideration which it is allowed justly belongs to them ...
... moral character ; not their inferi- ors in the proofs they have given of zeal and indus try in the service of their country . Without deny- ing to these gentlemen the respect and consideration which it is allowed justly belongs to them ...
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