The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volumen4Little, Brown,, 1877 |
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... cause of mankind . - A rash recourse to force is not to be justified in a state of real weakness . Such attempts bring on dis- grace , and in their failure discountenance and dis- courage more rational endeavors . But reason is to be ...
... cause of mankind . - A rash recourse to force is not to be justified in a state of real weakness . Such attempts bring on dis- grace , and in their failure discountenance and dis- courage more rational endeavors . But reason is to be ...
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... of the oppressors of France , has been among the causes which have helped to bring on the common ruin of king and people . There is no safety for hon- est men , but by believing all possible evil of OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY . 7.
... of the oppressors of France , has been among the causes which have helped to bring on the common ruin of king and people . There is no safety for hon- est men , but by believing all possible evil of OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY . 7.
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... cause with a just prince , dethroned by traitors and rebels , who proscribe , plunder , confiscate , and in every way cruelly oppress their fellow - citizens , in my opinion is to forget what is due to the honor and to the rights of all ...
... cause with a just prince , dethroned by traitors and rebels , who proscribe , plunder , confiscate , and in every way cruelly oppress their fellow - citizens , in my opinion is to forget what is due to the honor and to the rights of all ...
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... cause more new to you than to us , who have been long since satiated with them . We continue , as in the two last ages , to read , more generally than I be- lieve is now done on the Continent , the authors of sound antiquity . These ...
... cause more new to you than to us , who have been long since satiated with them . We continue , as in the two last ages , to read , more generally than I be- lieve is now done on the Continent , the authors of sound antiquity . These ...
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... cause to imagine that I prefer the conduct of those who have retired from this warfare to your behavior , who , with a courage and constancy almost supernatural , have struggled against tyranny , and kept the field to the last . You see ...
... cause to imagine that I prefer the conduct of those who have retired from this warfare to your behavior , who , with a courage and constancy almost supernatural , have struggled against tyranny , and kept the field to the last . You see ...
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Página 52 - Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Página 260 - Will you. to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them?
Página 51 - Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites...
Página 165 - I may assume, that the awful Author of our being is the Author of our place in the order of existence ; and that having disposed and marshalled us by a divine tactic, not according to our will, but according to his, he has, in and by that disposition, virtually subjected us to act the part which belongs to the place assigned us.
Página 155 - Sovereignty, as a matter of right, appertains to the Nation only, and not to any individual ; and a Nation has at all times an inherent indefeasible right to abolish any form of Government it finds inconvenient, and to establish such as accords with its interest, disposition, and happiness.
Página 141 - AN ACT DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN.
Página 27 - It was this abuse and perversion, which vanity makes even of hypocrisy, which has driven Rousseau to record a life not so much as chequered, or spotted here and there, with virtues, or even distinguished by a single good action.
Página 77 - the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any time or country...
Página 192 - It must always have been discoverable by persons of reflection, but it is now obvious to the world, that a theory concerning government may become as much a cause of fanaticism as a dogma in religion. There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feeling ; none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Página 166 - We have obligations to mankind at large, which are not in consequence of any special voluntary pact. They arise from the relatiou of man to man, and the relation of man to God, which relations are not matters of choice.