The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 3Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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Page 37
... human nature itself ! But if fortune should be as powerful over fame as she has been prevalent over virtue , at least our con- science is beyond her jurisdiction . My poor share in the support of that great measure no man shall ravish ...
... human nature itself ! But if fortune should be as powerful over fame as she has been prevalent over virtue , at least our con- science is beyond her jurisdiction . My poor share in the support of that great measure no man shall ravish ...
Page 62
... human inter- course itself , he decreed to make the country possess- ed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind . He resolved , in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things , to ...
... human inter- course itself , he decreed to make the country possess- ed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind . He resolved , in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things , to ...
Page 64
... human nature itself , that , on better thoughts , I find it more advisable to throw a pall over this hideous object , and to leave it to your general conceptions . For eighteen months , * without intermission , this destruction raged ...
... human nature itself , that , on better thoughts , I find it more advisable to throw a pall over this hideous object , and to leave it to your general conceptions . For eighteen months , * without intermission , this destruction raged ...
Page 68
... human life , had strained , with all the reachings and graspings of a vivacious mind , to extend the dominion of their bounty beyond the limits of Nature , and to perpetu- ate themselves through generations of generations , the ...
... human life , had strained , with all the reachings and graspings of a vivacious mind , to extend the dominion of their bounty beyond the limits of Nature , and to perpetu- ate themselves through generations of generations , the ...
Page 69
... humanity , they would have told the corps of fic- titious creditors , whose crimes were their claims , that they must keep an awful distance , that they must silence their inauspicious tongues , - that they must hold off their profane ...
... humanity , they would have told the corps of fic- titious creditors , whose crimes were their claims , that they must keep an awful distance , that they must silence their inauspicious tongues , - that they must hold off their profane ...
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