The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1889 - Great Britain |
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Page 7
... authority would be lost . You know , Sir , that even the virtuous efforts of your patriots to prevent the ruin of your country have had this very turn given to them . It has been said here , and in France too , that the reigning usurp ...
... authority would be lost . You know , Sir , that even the virtuous efforts of your patriots to prevent the ruin of your country have had this very turn given to them . It has been said here , and in France too , that the reigning usurp ...
Page 10
... authority and legitimate subordination , they become the natu ral prey of impostors . When they have once tasted of the flattery of knaves , they can no longer endure reason , which appears to them only in the form of censure and ...
... authority and legitimate subordination , they become the natu ral prey of impostors . When they have once tasted of the flattery of knaves , they can no longer endure reason , which appears to them only in the form of censure and ...
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... authority ? And what effect will it have upon those who are made to believe themselves a people of princes ? The more active and stirring part of the lower or- ders having got government and the distribution of plunder into their hands ...
... authority ? And what effect will it have upon those who are made to believe themselves a people of princes ? The more active and stirring part of the lower or- ders having got government and the distribution of plunder into their hands ...
Page 37
... authority so much as by inte rim . They instantly requested the Prince of Orango to take the government on himself . The throne was not effectively vacant for an hour . Your fundamental laws , as well as ours , suppose OF THE NATIONAL ...
... authority so much as by inte rim . They instantly requested the Prince of Orango to take the government on himself . The throne was not effectively vacant for an hour . Your fundamental laws , as well as ours , suppose OF THE NATIONAL ...
Page 43
... authority as I am , and without confidence , I should ill answer my own ideas of what would become myself , or what would be serviceable to others , if I were , as a volunteer , to obtrude any project of mine upon a nation to whose ...
... authority as I am , and without confidence , I should ill answer my own ideas of what would become myself , or what would be serviceable to others , if I were , as a volunteer , to obtrude any project of mine upon a nation to whose ...
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