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Whenever a rebellion really and truly exists , which is as easily known in fact as it
is difficult to define in words , government has not entered into such military
conventions ; but has ever declined all intermediate treaty , which should put
rebels ...
Whenever a rebellion really and truly exists , which is as easily known in fact as it
is difficult to define in words , government has not entered into such military
conventions ; but has ever declined all intermediate treaty , which should put
rebels ...
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I had indeed very earnest wishes to keep the whole body of this authority perfect
and entire as I found it : and to keep it so , not for our advantage solely ; but
principally for the sake of those , on whose account all just authority exists ; I
mean the ...
I had indeed very earnest wishes to keep the whole body of this authority perfect
and entire as I found it : and to keep it so , not for our advantage solely ; but
principally for the sake of those , on whose account all just authority exists ; I
mean the ...
Page 28
As the disputants , whose accurate and logical reasonings have brought us into
our present condition , think it absurd , that powers or members of any
constitution should exist , rarely or never to be exercised , I hope I shall be
excused in ...
As the disputants , whose accurate and logical reasonings have brought us into
our present condition , think it absurd , that powers or members of any
constitution should exist , rarely or never to be exercised , I hope I shall be
excused in ...
Page 40
All who have ever written on government are unanimous , that among a people
generally corrupt , liberty cannot long exist . And indeed how is it possible ? when
those who are to make the laws , to guard , to enforce , or to obey them , are , by ...
All who have ever written on government are unanimous , that among a people
generally corrupt , liberty cannot long exist . And indeed how is it possible ? when
those who are to make the laws , to guard , to enforce , or to obey them , are , by ...
Page 52
No government ought to own that it exists for the purpose of checking the
prosperity of its people , or that there is such a principle involved in its policy .
Under the impression of these sentiments ( and not as wanting every attention to
my ...
No government ought to own that it exists for the purpose of checking the
prosperity of its people , or that there is such a principle involved in its policy .
Under the impression of these sentiments ( and not as wanting every attention to
my ...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Publisher | Henry G. Bohn, 1864 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2010 |
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