The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page 41
... liberty , from which they are for ever debarred : this fallacious idea of liberty , whilst it presents a vain shadow of happiness to the subject , binds faster the chains of his subjection . What is left undone by the natural avarice ...
... liberty , from which they are for ever debarred : this fallacious idea of liberty , whilst it presents a vain shadow of happiness to the subject , binds faster the chains of his subjection . What is left undone by the natural avarice ...
Page 43
... liberty of reason , and they have made them amends , by what a base soul will think a more valuable liberty , by not only allowing , but encouraging , them to corrupt themselves in the most scandalous manner . They consider their ...
... liberty of reason , and they have made them amends , by what a base soul will think a more valuable liberty , by not only allowing , but encouraging , them to corrupt themselves in the most scandalous manner . They consider their ...
Page 44
... liberty by the sub- jection of the rest , that they are in an infinitely severer state of slavery ; they make themselves the most degenerate and unhappy of mankind , for no other purpose than that they may the more effectually ...
... liberty by the sub- jection of the rest , that they are in an infinitely severer state of slavery ; they make themselves the most degenerate and unhappy of mankind , for no other purpose than that they may the more effectually ...
Page 45
... liberty for the purchase . Now , my Lord , we are come to the master - piece of Grecian refinement , and Roman solidity , a popular government . The earliest and most cele- brated republick of this model was that of Athens . It was ...
... liberty for the purchase . Now , my Lord , we are come to the master - piece of Grecian refinement , and Roman solidity , a popular government . The earliest and most cele- brated republick of this model was that of Athens . It was ...
Page 61
... liberty sometimes trodden down , some- times giddily set up , and ever precariously fluctu- ating and unsettled ; it has only been kept alive by the blasts of continual feuds , wars , and conspi- racies . In no country in Europe has the ...
... liberty sometimes trodden down , some- times giddily set up , and ever precariously fluctu- ating and unsettled ; it has only been kept alive by the blasts of continual feuds , wars , and conspi- racies . In no country in Europe has the ...
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