The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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Page 13
... cause of all this superstitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are otherwise enlightened . Civil government borrows a strength from ecclesi- astical ; and ...
... cause of all this superstitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are otherwise enlightened . Civil government borrows a strength from ecclesi- astical ; and ...
Page 45
... cause ; for it is an honest zeal , and in a good cause . I have defended natural religion against a confederacy of atheists and divines . I now plead for natural society against politicians , and for natural reason against all three ...
... cause ; for it is an honest zeal , and in a good cause . I have defended natural religion against a confederacy of atheists and divines . I now plead for natural society against politicians , and for natural reason against all three ...
Page 48
... resolved , without any consideration of the merits of the cause , merely as the parties who uphold these jarring interests may chance to prevail ; and as they prevail , the balance is overset , 48 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... resolved , without any consideration of the merits of the cause , merely as the parties who uphold these jarring interests may chance to prevail ; and as they prevail , the balance is overset , 48 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
Page 50
... cause and their own associates . I could show how vehemently they have contended for names , and how silently they have passed over things of the last importance . And I could demonstrate that they have had the opportunity of doing all ...
... cause and their own associates . I could show how vehemently they have contended for names , and how silently they have passed over things of the last importance . And I could demonstrate that they have had the opportunity of doing all ...
Page 54
... cause . My cause , which two farm- ers from the plough could have decided in half an hour , takes the court twenty years . I am however at the end of my labor , and have in reward for all my toil and vexation a judgment in my favor ...
... cause . My cause , which two farm- ers from the plough could have decided in half an hour , takes the court twenty years . I am however at the end of my labor , and have in reward for all my toil and vexation a judgment in my favor ...
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