The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1889 - Great Britain |
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... conduct of a losing party never appears right : at least , it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments , -success . The indulgence of a sort of undefined hope , an ob- scure confidence , that some ...
... conduct of a losing party never appears right : at least , it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments , -success . The indulgence of a sort of undefined hope , an ob- scure confidence , that some ...
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... conduct , or for fortifying or illustrating anything by a refer- ence to his opinions . They have with us the fate of older paradoxes : - Cuin ventum ad verum cst , sensus moresque repugnant , Atque ipsa utilitas , justi prope mater et ...
... conduct , or for fortifying or illustrating anything by a refer- ence to his opinions . They have with us the fate of older paradoxes : - Cuin ventum ad verum cst , sensus moresque repugnant , Atque ipsa utilitas , justi prope mater et ...
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... conduct of Gen- eral Monk . How this affects your case I cannot tell . I doubt whether you possess in France any persons of a capacity to serve the French monarchy in the same manner in which Monk served the monarchy of England . The ...
... conduct of Gen- eral Monk . How this affects your case I cannot tell . I doubt whether you possess in France any persons of a capacity to serve the French monarchy in the same manner in which Monk served the monarchy of England . The ...
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... conduct of those who have retired from this warfare to your behavior , who , with a courage and constancy almost supernatural , have struggled against tyranny , and kept the field to the last . You see I have corrected the exceptionable ...
... conduct of those who have retired from this warfare to your behavior , who , with a courage and constancy almost supernatural , have struggled against tyranny , and kept the field to the last . You see I have corrected the exceptionable ...
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... conduct of his measure into hands who he does not know will exe- cute his plans according to his ideas . Three or four ministers were not to be trusted with the being of the French monarchy , of all the orders , and of all the ...
... conduct of his measure into hands who he does not know will exe- cute his plans according to his ideas . Three or four ministers were not to be trusted with the being of the French monarchy , of all the orders , and of all the ...
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