The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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Edmund Burke. ( Those who believe in public service broadening out from the duty which lies nearest ' gladly remember that ' to love the little platoon we belong to in society , is the first principle ( the germ as it were ) of public ...
Edmund Burke. ( Those who believe in public service broadening out from the duty which lies nearest ' gladly remember that ' to love the little platoon we belong to in society , is the first principle ( the germ as it were ) of public ...
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... duties . Those who quit their proper character , to assume what does not belong to them , are , for the greater part , ignorant both of the character they leave , and of the character they assume . Wholly unacquainted with the world in ...
... duties . Those who quit their proper character , to assume what does not belong to them , are , for the greater part , ignorant both of the character they leave , and of the character they assume . Wholly unacquainted with the world in ...
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... duty , and their obligations . The slave in the old play tells his master , Hæc commemoratio est quasi exprobratio . ' It is not pleasant as compliment ; it is not wholesome as instruction . After all , if the king were to bring himself ...
... duty , and their obligations . The slave in the old play tells his master , Hæc commemoratio est quasi exprobratio . ' It is not pleasant as compliment ; it is not wholesome as instruction . After all , if the king were to bring himself ...
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... duty , or to accommodate the one to the other . I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power , from obscure condition , ought not to be made too easy , nor a thing too much of course . If rare merit be the rarest of all ...
... duty , or to accommodate the one to the other . I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power , from obscure condition , ought not to be made too easy , nor a thing too much of course . If rare merit be the rarest of all ...
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... duty . However , I considered that treasure rather as a possession to be secured , than as a prize to be contended for . I did not discern how the present time came to be so very favourable to all exertions in the cause of freedom . The ...
... duty . However , I considered that treasure rather as a possession to be secured , than as a prize to be contended for . I did not discern how the present time came to be so very favourable to all exertions in the cause of freedom . The ...
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