The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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Page vii
... Court of Chancery to stop the sale . What he himself felt , on receiving intelligence of the injury done him by one from whom his kindness de- served a very different return , will be best conveyed in his own words . The following is an ...
... Court of Chancery to stop the sale . What he himself felt , on receiving intelligence of the injury done him by one from whom his kindness de- served a very different return , will be best conveyed in his own words . The following is an ...
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... court of Nero , a person of learning , of unquestioned merit , and of unsuspected loyalty , was put to death for no other reason , than that he had a pedantic countenance which displeased the emperor . This very monster of mankind ...
... court of Nero , a person of learning , of unquestioned merit , and of unsuspected loyalty , was put to death for no other reason , than that he had a pedantic countenance which displeased the emperor . This very monster of mankind ...
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... is governed in as arbitrary a manner as he governs the wretches subjected to him . Here the tyranny is doubled . There are two courts , and two interests ; both very different from the interests of 32 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... is governed in as arbitrary a manner as he governs the wretches subjected to him . Here the tyranny is doubled . There are two courts , and two interests ; both very different from the interests of 32 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
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... court . What has been said of the chief , is true of the inferior officers of this species of government ; each in his province exercising the same tyranny , and grinding the people by an oppression , the more severely felt , as it is ...
... court . What has been said of the chief , is true of the inferior officers of this species of government ; each in his province exercising the same tyranny , and grinding the people by an oppression , the more severely felt , as it is ...
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... court ; and all services done the state are looked upon as dangerous to the rulers , whether sultans or senators . The ostracism at Athens was built upon this principle . The giddy people whom we have now under consideration , being ...
... court ; and all services done the state are looked upon as dangerous to the rulers , whether sultans or senators . The ostracism at Athens was built upon this principle . The giddy people whom we have now under consideration , being ...
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