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" All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. "
Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks - Page 155
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The Triumvirate, by three members of Harrow school

626 pages
...country and ourselves : " All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences, we give, we take, we remit some rights that we may enjoy others, and we choose rather to be happy citizens than...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...support any given part of our constitution ; or even tha whole of it ^ogether. 1 could easily, if I almost all, either wholly repealed or exceedingly reduced? Were they not touched and grieved, eve hut what is natural and proper. All government, indeed every human henefit and enjoyment, every virtue,...
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Speeches: With Memoir and Historical Introductions

Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...support any given part of our constitution, or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I had not already tired you, give you very striking...act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniencies ; we give and tskxrf we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others ; and we choose...
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Works, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 pages
...support any given part of our Constitution, or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I had not already tired you, give you very striking...enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded_qn.. compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences ; we give and take ; we remit some rights,...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...it has all the contortions of the sybil without the inspiration.' " HURD. — HENR Y. - PAINE. 383 All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment,...prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Speech on Conciliation with America. RICHARD HURD. 1720-1808. In this awfully stupendous mauner, at...
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Portraits of British Americans, Volume 2

Fennings Taylor - Biography - 1867 - 484 pages
...law of equivalents, as if he thought, with Burke, that " all government, indeed every human effort and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter." * THE HONORABLE F. EVANTUREL, MPP, QUEREC. No one of our acquaintance has made a more effective contribution...
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Treasury of Choice Quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...and the basis of every truth.' t ' When Croft's Life of Dr. Young was spoken of as a good imitation All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment,...prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Speech on Conciliation -with A merica. RICHARD KURD. 1720-1808. TN this awfully stupendous manner,...
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Correspondence and Negotiations Connected with the Affairs of Nova Scotia ...

Canada. Department of the Secretary of State - Canada - 1869 - 80 pages
...allowance for local purposes. It is BURKE, I believe, who says very truly, that " all good governments, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment — every...prudent act— is founded on compromise and barter," and until you are able to demonstrate to our people that the surrender of so great a part of their...
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The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1869 - 584 pages
...support any given part of our Constitution, or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I had not already tired you, give you very striking and convincing instances bf it. This is nothing but what is natural and proper. All government, indeed every human benefit and...
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Every Saturday

1873 - 740 pages
...but Burke had thought out his subject well when he said : " All government — indeed every common benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent...barter : we balance inconveniences, we give and take." " The people, our sovereign : " it was strange to hear so democratic a toast as this proposed by the...
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