The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... humanity to their slaves . Such executions may indeed satiate our revenge ; they may harden our hearts , and puff us up with pride and arrogance . Alas ! this is not instruction ! If anything can be drawn from such examples by a parity ...
... humanity to their slaves . Such executions may indeed satiate our revenge ; they may harden our hearts , and puff us up with pride and arrogance . Alas ! this is not instruction ! If anything can be drawn from such examples by a parity ...
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... human action , the rule of your justice . These strange incongruities must ever perplex those who confound the unhappiness of civil dissensions with the crime of treason . Whenever a rebellion really and truly exists , which is as ...
... human action , the rule of your justice . These strange incongruities must ever perplex those who confound the unhappiness of civil dissensions with the crime of treason . Whenever a rebellion really and truly exists , which is as ...
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... humanity and justice . This act , proceeding on these principles , that is , preparing to end the present troubles by a trial of one sort of hostility under the name of piracy , and of another by the name of treason , and executing the ...
... humanity and justice . This act , proceeding on these principles , that is , preparing to end the present troubles by a trial of one sort of hostility under the name of piracy , and of another by the name of treason , and executing the ...
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... humanity , and dignity of mind , which formerly characterized this nation . War suspends the rules of moral obligation , and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally abrogated . Civil wars strike deepest of all into the ...
... humanity , and dignity of mind , which formerly characterized this nation . War suspends the rules of moral obligation , and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally abrogated . Civil wars strike deepest of all into the ...
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... human affairs . Men of firmer minds may see them without staggering or astonishment.— Some may think them matters of congratulation and compli- mentary addresses ; but I trust your candour will be so in- dulgent to my weakness , as not ...
... human affairs . Men of firmer minds may see them without staggering or astonishment.— Some may think them matters of congratulation and compli- mentary addresses ; but I trust your candour will be so in- dulgent to my weakness , as not ...
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