The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 6J. C. Nimmo, 1887 - Great Britain |
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... ground . Everything is new , and , according to the fashionable phrase , revolutionary . In former days authors valued themselves upon the maturity and fulness of their deliberations . Accord- ingly , they predicted ( perhaps with more ...
... ground . Everything is new , and , according to the fashionable phrase , revolutionary . In former days authors valued themselves upon the maturity and fulness of their deliberations . Accord- ingly , they predicted ( perhaps with more ...
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... ground some confidence in our- selves or in others . We do not want a largess of inconstancy . Poor souls , we have enough of that sort of poverty at home . There is a difference , too , between deliberation and doctrine : a man ought ...
... ground some confidence in our- selves or in others . We do not want a largess of inconstancy . Poor souls , we have enough of that sort of poverty at home . There is a difference , too , between deliberation and doctrine : a man ought ...
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... ground , the protection offered is to " those who , by declaring for a monarchical government , shall shake off the yoke of a sanguinary anarchy . " It is for that purpose the declaration calls on them " to join the standard of an ...
... ground , the protection offered is to " those who , by declaring for a monarchical government , shall shake off the yoke of a sanguinary anarchy . " It is for that purpose the declaration calls on them " to join the standard of an ...
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... ground : that is , a speculation of her crumbling to pieces , and be- ing thrown into a number of little separate repub- lics . After paying the tribute of humanity to those who will be ruined by all these changes , on the whole he is ...
... ground : that is , a speculation of her crumbling to pieces , and be- ing thrown into a number of little separate repub- lics . After paying the tribute of humanity to those who will be ruined by all these changes , on the whole he is ...
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... ground no part of your politics on such unsteady specula- tions . But as to any practice to ensue , are we not yet cured of the malady of speculating on the cir- cumstances of things totally different from those in which we live and ...
... ground no part of your politics on such unsteady specula- tions . But as to any practice to ensue , are we not yet cured of the malady of speculating on the cir- cumstances of things totally different from those in which we live and ...
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