The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - Great Britain |
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Page 46
... arises , how to be defended against the governors ? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes ? In vain they change from a single person to a few . These few have the passions of the one ; and they unite to strengthen themselves , and to secure the ...
... arises , how to be defended against the governors ? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes ? In vain they change from a single person to a few . These few have the passions of the one ; and they unite to strengthen themselves , and to secure the ...
Page 92
... arises from two causes principally ; either from a greater degree of natural sensibility , or from a closer and longer attention to the object . To illustrate this by the procedure of the senses , in which the same difference is found ...
... arises from two causes principally ; either from a greater degree of natural sensibility , or from a closer and longer attention to the object . To illustrate this by the procedure of the senses , in which the same difference is found ...
Page 93
... arises , to settle the point , if the excess or diminution be not glaring . If we differ in opinion about two quantities , we can have recourse to a com- mon measure , which may decide the question with the utmost exactness ; and this ...
... arises , to settle the point , if the excess or diminution be not glaring . If we differ in opinion about two quantities , we can have recourse to a com- mon measure , which may decide the question with the utmost exactness ; and this ...
Page 95
... arises a want of taste ; a weakness in the latter constitutes a wrong or a bad one . There are some men formed with feelings so blunt , with tempers so cold and phlegmatic , that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole ...
... arises a want of taste ; a weakness in the latter constitutes a wrong or a bad one . There are some men formed with feelings so blunt , with tempers so cold and phlegmatic , that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole ...
Page 96
... arise from a natural weakness of un- derstanding ( in whatever the strength of that faculty may consist ) , or , which is much more commonly the case , it may arise from a want of a proper and well- directed exercise , which alone can ...
... arise from a natural weakness of un- derstanding ( in whatever the strength of that faculty may consist ) , or , which is much more commonly the case , it may arise from a want of a proper and well- directed exercise , which alone can ...
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