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Page 29
They lost all concern for their common honour or safety , and could bear no
advice that tended to reform them . At this time truth became offensive to those
lords , the people , and most highly dangerous to the speaker . The orators no
longer ...
They lost all concern for their common honour or safety , and could bear no
advice that tended to reform them . At this time truth became offensive to those
lords , the people , and most highly dangerous to the speaker . The orators no
longer ...
Page 37
But how far corruption , venality , the contempt of honour , the oblivion of all duty
to our country , and the most abandoned public prostitution , are preferable to the
more glaring and violent effects of faction , I will not presume to determine .
But how far corruption , venality , the contempt of honour , the oblivion of all duty
to our country , and the most abandoned public prostitution , are preferable to the
more glaring and violent effects of faction , I will not presume to determine .
Page 41
... as you have frequently lamented the miseries derived to us from artificial law ,
and your candour is the more to be admired and applauded in this , as your
Lordship ' s noble house has derived its wealth and its honour from that
profession .
... as you have frequently lamented the miseries derived to us from artificial law ,
and your candour is the more to be admired and applauded in this , as your
Lordship ' s noble house has derived its wealth and its honour from that
profession .
Page 44
... and happy they who have been snatched from that post of danger which they
occupy , with the remains of their virtue ; loss of honours , wealth , titles , and
even the loss of one ' s country , is nothing in balance with so great an advantage
.
... and happy they who have been snatched from that post of danger which they
occupy , with the remains of their virtue ; loss of honours , wealth , titles , and
even the loss of one ' s country , is nothing in balance with so great an advantage
.
Page 46
... honour of the Creator , as subversive of human reason , and productive of
infinitely more mischief to the human race . were opposed , and slavery where
they were received , the pretended wise inventions of politicians have done the
same .
... honour of the Creator , as subversive of human reason , and productive of
infinitely more mischief to the human race . were opposed , and slavery where
they were received , the pretended wise inventions of politicians have done the
same .
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 Bohn's British classics Bohn's British classics: Burke's works The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Edition | 5, revised |
| Publisher | Henry G. Bohn, 1854 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 21 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 512 pages |
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