The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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... nobility as a ' mere work of art ' ! His remarks on the clergy are equally unwarranted by the general facts . It was nearly forty years before that Lord Chester- field - a better statesman than his epistolary reputation has permitted us ...
... nobility as a ' mere work of art ' ! His remarks on the clergy are equally unwarranted by the general facts . It was nearly forty years before that Lord Chester- field - a better statesman than his epistolary reputation has permitted us ...
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... nobility , to lead your virtue , not to overlay it ; you would have had a liberal order of commons , to emulate and to recruit that nobility ; you would have had a protected , satisfied , laborious , and obedient people , taught to seek ...
... nobility , to lead your virtue , not to overlay it ; you would have had a liberal order of commons , to emulate and to recruit that nobility ; you would have had a protected , satisfied , laborious , and obedient people , taught to seek ...
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... nobility , would inevitably become subservient to the worst designs of individuals in that class . In the spoil and humiliation of their own order these in- dividuals would possess a sure fund for the pay of their new followers . To ...
... nobility , would inevitably become subservient to the worst designs of individuals in that class . In the spoil and humiliation of their own order these in- dividuals would possess a sure fund for the pay of their new followers . To ...
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... nobility will resemble the artificers and clowns , and money - jobbers , usurers , and Jews , who will be always their fellows , sometimes their masters . Believe me , sir , those , who attempt to level , never equalize . In all ...
... nobility will resemble the artificers and clowns , and money - jobbers , usurers , and Jews , who will be always their fellows , sometimes their masters . Believe me , sir , those , who attempt to level , never equalize . In all ...
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... nobility and the clergy , the one by profession , the other by patronage , kept learning in existence , even in the midst of arms and confusions , and whilst governments were rather in their causes , than formed . Learning paid back ...
... nobility and the clergy , the one by profession , the other by patronage , kept learning in existence , even in the midst of arms and confusions , and whilst governments were rather in their causes , than formed . Learning paid back ...
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