“The” Works of Edmund Burke, Том 2George Dearborn, 1834 |
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... reason the cold neutrality of abstract jus- tice , is , to a good and clear cause , a more de- sirable thing than an affection liable to be any way disturbed . When the trial is by friends , if the decision should happen to be ...
... reason the cold neutrality of abstract jus- tice , is , to a good and clear cause , a more de- sirable thing than an affection liable to be any way disturbed . When the trial is by friends , if the decision should happen to be ...
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... reason be separated . For instance , when we praise our revolution of 1688 , though the nation in that act , was on the defensive , and was justified in incurring all the evils of a defensive war , we do not rest there . We always ...
... reason be separated . For instance , when we praise our revolution of 1688 , though the nation in that act , was on the defensive , and was justified in incurring all the evils of a defensive war , we do not rest there . We always ...
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... reasons ; first , that as he thought it then not advisable to make the pro- ceedings of the factious societies the ... reason to apprehend . In a committee it was always in his power to bring the ques- tions from generalities to facts ...
... reasons ; first , that as he thought it then not advisable to make the pro- ceedings of the factious societies the ... reason to apprehend . In a committee it was always in his power to bring the ques- tions from generalities to facts ...
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... reason for shutting up the mouths of Mr. Fox or Mr. Sheridan , so as to prevent their delivering their sentiments of ... reasons , on the principle of what is fair between man and man , and thereby to put themselves on a level with those ...
... reason for shutting up the mouths of Mr. Fox or Mr. Sheridan , so as to prevent their delivering their sentiments of ... reasons , on the principle of what is fair between man and man , and thereby to put themselves on a level with those ...
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... reason , or for no reason , of disgracing his whole public life by a scandalous contradiction of every one of his own acts , writings , and declarations . If these charges be true , their exclusion of such a person from their body is a ...
... reason , or for no reason , of disgracing his whole public life by a scandalous contradiction of every one of his own acts , writings , and declarations . If these charges be true , their exclusion of such a person from their body is a ...
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