The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1George Bell, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... court of Nero , a person learning , of unquestioned merit , and of unsuspected loyalty , was put to death for no other reason , than that he had a pedantic countenance which displeased the emperor . This very monster of mankind appeared ...
... court of Nero , a person learning , of unquestioned merit , and of unsuspected loyalty , was put to death for no other reason , than that he had a pedantic countenance which displeased the emperor . This very monster of mankind appeared ...
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... courts , and two interests ; both very different from the interests of the people . The favourite knows that the ... court . What has been said of the chief , is true of the inferior officers of this species of government ; each n A ...
... courts , and two interests ; both very different from the interests of the people . The favourite knows that the ... court . What has been said of the chief , is true of the inferior officers of this species of government ; each n A ...
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... court ; and all services done in the state are looked upon as dangerous to the rulers , whether sultans or senators . The Ostracism at Athens was built upon this principle . The giddy people , whom we have now under consideration ...
... court ; and all services done in the state are looked upon as dangerous to the rulers , whether sultans or senators . The Ostracism at Athens was built upon this principle . The giddy people , whom we have now under consideration ...
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... court to court ; I fly from equity to law , and from law to equity ; equal uncertainty attends me everywhere ; and a mistake in which I had no share , decides at once upon my liberty and property , sending me from the court to a prison ...
... court to court ; I fly from equity to law , and from law to equity ; equal uncertainty attends me everywhere ; and a mistake in which I had no share , decides at once upon my liberty and property , sending me from the court to a prison ...
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... courts are the schools where cruelty , pride , dissimulation , and treachery are studied and taught in the most vicious perfection . This is a point so clear and acknowledged , that if it did not make a neces- sary part of my subject ...
... courts are the schools where cruelty , pride , dissimulation , and treachery are studied and taught in the most vicious perfection . This is a point so clear and acknowledged , that if it did not make a neces- sary part of my subject ...
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