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Page 16
... that moderation , in a case like this , is a sort of treason ; and that all arguments
for it are sufficiently answered by railing at rebels and rebellion , and by charging
all the present or future miseries , which we may suffer , on the resistance of our ...
... that moderation , in a case like this , is a sort of treason ; and that all arguments
for it are sufficiently answered by railing at rebels and rebellion , and by charging
all the present or future miseries , which we may suffer , on the resistance of our ...
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Nor do I conceive that we suffer anything by thus regulating our own minds . We
are not disarmed by being disencuinbered of our passions . Declaiming on
rebellion never added a bayonet , or a charge of powder , to your military force ;
but I ...
Nor do I conceive that we suffer anything by thus regulating our own minds . We
are not disarmed by being disencuinbered of our passions . Declaiming on
rebellion never added a bayonet , or a charge of powder , to your military force ;
but I ...
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Does anybody seriously maintain , that , charged with my share of the public
councils , I am obliged not to resist projects which I think mischievous , lest men
who suffer should be encouraged to resist ? The very tendency of such projects
to ...
Does anybody seriously maintain , that , charged with my share of the public
councils , I am obliged not to resist projects which I think mischievous , lest men
who suffer should be encouraged to resist ? The very tendency of such projects
to ...
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On the principle of this argument , the more mischiefs we suffer from any
administration , the more our trust in it is to be confirmed . Let them but once get
us into a war , and then their power is safe , and an act of oblivion passed for all
their ...
On the principle of this argument , the more mischiefs we suffer from any
administration , the more our trust in it is to be confirmed . Let them but once get
us into a war , and then their power is safe , and an act of oblivion passed for all
their ...
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But calamity is unhappily the usual season of reflection ; and the pride of men will
not often suffer . reason to have any scope until it can be no longer of service . I
have always wished , that as the dispute had its apparent origin from things done
...
But calamity is unhappily the usual season of reflection ; and the pride of men will
not often suffer . reason to have any scope until it can be no longer of service . I
have always wished , that as the dispute had its apparent origin from things done
...
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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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