The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 11
... sort of hardship . They want to receive the emoluments appropriated for teaching -one set of doctrines , whilst they are teaching another . A church , in any legal sense , is only a certain system of religious doctrines and practices ...
... sort of hardship . They want to receive the emoluments appropriated for teaching -one set of doctrines , whilst they are teaching another . A church , in any legal sense , is only a certain system of religious doctrines and practices ...
Page 19
... sort out what is intended for example , what only as narrative , —what to be understood literally , what fig- uratively , where one precept is to be controlled and modified by another , what is used directly , and what only as an ...
... sort out what is intended for example , what only as narrative , —what to be understood literally , what fig- uratively , where one precept is to be controlled and modified by another , what is used directly , and what only as an ...
Page 41
... sort of theo- retical or practical conclusion . A statesman differs from a professor in an university : the latter has only the general view of society ; the former , the states- man , has a number of circumstances to combine with those ...
... sort of theo- retical or practical conclusion . A statesman differs from a professor in an university : the latter has only the general view of society ; the former , the states- man , has a number of circumstances to combine with those ...
Page 71
... sort of approach to perfection . There is not , there never was , a principle of government under heaven , that does not , in the very pursuit of the good it proposes , naturally and inevitably lead into some inconvenience which makes ...
... sort of approach to perfection . There is not , there never was , a principle of government under heaven , that does not , in the very pursuit of the good it proposes , naturally and inevitably lead into some inconvenience which makes ...
Page 73
... sort of power and influence would induce us to act against the true interests of the people . All are agreed that Parliaments should not be per- petual ; the only question is , What is the most con- venient time for their duration ...
... sort of power and influence would induce us to act against the true interests of the people . All are agreed that Parliaments should not be per- petual ; the only question is , What is the most con- venient time for their duration ...
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