The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... 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 exists ...
... 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 exists ...
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... moral obligation , and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally abrogated . Civil wars strike deepest of all into the manners of the people . They vitiate their politics ; they corrupt their morals ; they pervert even the ...
... moral obligation , and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally abrogated . Civil wars strike deepest of all into the manners of the people . They vitiate their politics ; they corrupt their morals ; they pervert even the ...
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... moral agents . Indeed our affairs are in a bad condition . I do assure those gentlemen who have prayed for war , and have obtained the blessing they have sought , that they are at 12 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL .
... moral agents . Indeed our affairs are in a bad condition . I do assure those gentlemen who have prayed for war , and have obtained the blessing they have sought , that they are at 12 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL .
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... and not a matter of moral prudence and natural feeling . They have disputed , whether liberty be a positive or a negative idea ; whether it does not consist in being governed by laws , without LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 29.
... and not a matter of moral prudence and natural feeling . They have disputed , whether liberty be a positive or a negative idea ; whether it does not consist in being governed by laws , without LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 29.
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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