The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 210
... abuse , if they think it honorable to revile the absent ) can , as things now stand , neither be provoked at our railing or bettered by our instruction . All communication is cut off between us . But this we know with certain- ty , that ...
... abuse , if they think it honorable to revile the absent ) can , as things now stand , neither be provoked at our railing or bettered by our instruction . All communication is cut off between us . But this we know with certain- ty , that ...
Page 244
... abuses of authority . All dread of a standing military force is looked upon as a superstitious panic . All shame of calling in for- eigners and savages in a civil contest is worn off . We grow indifferent to the consequences inevitable ...
... abuses of authority . All dread of a standing military force is looked upon as a superstitious panic . All shame of calling in for- eigners and savages in a civil contest is worn off . We grow indifferent to the consequences inevitable ...
Page 277
... abuses in the expenditure of pub- lic money . " This has been treated by the noble lord in the blue ribbon as a wild , factious language . It happens , however , that the people , in their address to FOR ECONOMICAL REFORM . 277.
... abuses in the expenditure of pub- lic money . " This has been treated by the noble lord in the blue ribbon as a wild , factious language . It happens , however , that the people , in their address to FOR ECONOMICAL REFORM . 277.
Page 278
... abuse is the direct interest of gov- ernment , of government taken abstractedly from its duties , and considered merely as a system intend- ing its own conservation . If there is any one eminent criterion which above all the rest ...
... abuse is the direct interest of gov- ernment , of government taken abstractedly from its duties , and considered merely as a system intend- ing its own conservation . If there is any one eminent criterion which above all the rest ...
Page 279
... abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection . If the noble lord in the blue . ribbon pleads , " Not guilty , " to the charges brought against the present system of public economy , it is not possible to give a fair verdict ...
... abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection . If the noble lord in the blue . ribbon pleads , " Not guilty , " to the charges brought against the present system of public economy , it is not possible to give a fair verdict ...
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