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Page 6
... and not the moral qualities of 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
...
... and not the moral qualities of 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
...
Page 11
They vitiate their politics ; they corrupt their morals ; they pervert even the natural
taste and relish of equity and justice . By teaching us to consider our fellow -
citizens in a hostile light , the whole body of our nation becomes gradually less
dear ...
They vitiate their politics ; they corrupt their morals ; they pervert even the natural
taste and relish of equity and justice . By teaching us to consider our fellow -
citizens in a hostile light , the whole body of our nation becomes gradually less
dear ...
Page 12
Wanting feelings for the honour of our country , we might then in cold blood be
brought to think a little of our interests as individual citizens , and our private
conscience as moral agents . Indeed our affairs are in a bad condition . I do
assure ...
Wanting feelings for the honour of our country , we might then in cold blood be
brought to think a little of our interests as individual citizens , and our private
conscience as moral agents . Indeed our affairs are in a bad condition . I do
assure ...
Page 29
There are people , who have split and anatomised the doctrine of free
government , as if it were an abstract question concerning metaphysical liberty
and necessity ; and not a matter of moral prudence and natural feeling . They
have disputed ...
There are people , who have split and anatomised the doctrine of free
government , as if it were an abstract question concerning metaphysical liberty
and necessity ; and not a matter of moral prudence and natural feeling . They
have disputed ...
Page 39
This moral levelling is a servile principle . It leads to practical passive obedience
far better than all the doctrines which the pliant accommodation of theology to
power has ever produced . It cuts up by the roots , not only all idea of forcible ...
This moral levelling is a servile principle . It leads to practical passive obedience
far better than all the doctrines which the pliant accommodation of theology to
power has ever produced . It cuts up by the roots , not only all idea of forcible ...
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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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