The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... politicians . When I contemplate what they have done at home , which is in effect little less than an amazing conquest wrought by change of opinion , in a great part ( to be sure far from altogether ) very sudden , I cannot help letting ...
... politicians . When I contemplate what they have done at home , which is in effect little less than an amazing conquest wrought by change of opinion , in a great part ( to be sure far from altogether ) very sudden , I cannot help letting ...
Page 43
... political interests , the speculations of the French and German economists , and the cabals , and the secret , as well as publick doctrines of the illuminatenorden and free masons , have made a considerable progress in that country ...
... political interests , the speculations of the French and German economists , and the cabals , and the secret , as well as publick doctrines of the illuminatenorden and free masons , have made a considerable progress in that country ...
Page 50
... political com- bination is much larger than we are apt to ima- gine . We never can say what may , or may not happen , without a view to all the actual circum- stances . Experience , upon other data than those , is of all things the most ...
... political com- bination is much larger than we are apt to ima- gine . We never can say what may , or may not happen , without a view to all the actual circum- stances . Experience , upon other data than those , is of all things the most ...
Page 51
... political and civil power of France is wholly separated from its property of every description ; and of course that neither the landed nor the monied interest possesses the smallest weight or consideration in the direction of any ...
... political and civil power of France is wholly separated from its property of every description ; and of course that neither the landed nor the monied interest possesses the smallest weight or consideration in the direction of any ...
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... politicians ; a great number for even so great a country as France . These men never will quietly settle in ordinary occupations , nor submit to any scheme which must reduce them to an entirely private condition , or to the exercise of ...
... politicians ; a great number for even so great a country as France . These men never will quietly settle in ordinary occupations , nor submit to any scheme which must reduce them to an entirely private condition , or to the exercise of ...
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