 To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind ; indeed the necessary effects of the ignorance...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 435by Edmund Burke - 1887Full view - About this book
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...carry a contemporaneousness that is as inescapable as it is striking: To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power,...common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind. . . . There is hardly a man in or out of power, who holds any other language: That government is at... | |
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