The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... sense was either perverted or obscured , are now rectified . Two or three small in- sertions have also been made from a quarto copy cor- rected by Mr. Burke himself . From the same source something more has been drawn in the shape of ...
... sense was either perverted or obscured , are now rectified . Two or three small in- sertions have also been made from a quarto copy cor- rected by Mr. Burke himself . From the same source something more has been drawn in the shape of ...
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... sense of its own weakness , of its subordinate rank in the creation , and of the extreme danger of letting the imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it would ...
... sense of its own weakness , of its subordinate rank in the creation , and of the extreme danger of letting the imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it would ...
Page 33
... sense of the dignity of their nature , is lost in their slavery . The day , says Homer , which makes a man a slave , takes away half his worth ; and , in fact , he loses every impulse to action , but that low and base . one of fear . In ...
... sense of the dignity of their nature , is lost in their slavery . The day , says Homer , which makes a man a slave , takes away half his worth ; and , in fact , he loses every impulse to action , but that low and base . one of fear . In ...
Page 34
... sense of feeling ; the weight of tyranny at last becomes insupportable ; but the remedy is not so easy : in general , the only remedy by which they attempt to cure the tyranny is to change the tyrant . This is , and always was , the ...
... sense of feeling ; the weight of tyranny at last becomes insupportable ; but the remedy is not so easy : in general , the only remedy by which they attempt to cure the tyranny is to change the tyrant . This is , and always was , the ...
Page 52
... sense and interpretation of these laws . Thus we were brought back to our old incertitude . New laws were made to expound the old ; and new diffi- culties arose upon the new laws ; as words multiplied , opportunities of cavilling upon ...
... sense and interpretation of these laws . Thus we were brought back to our old incertitude . New laws were made to expound the old ; and new diffi- culties arose upon the new laws ; as words multiplied , opportunities of cavilling upon ...
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