The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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Page 121
... moral world . If we cry , like children , for the moon , like children , we must cry on . We must follow the nature of our affairs , and conform ourselves to our situation . If we do , our objects are plain and compassable . Why should ...
... moral world . If we cry , like children , for the moon , like children , we must cry on . We must follow the nature of our affairs , and conform ourselves to our situation . If we do , our objects are plain and compassable . Why should ...
Page 130
... morals of public men , by our pos- session of the most infallible receipt in the world for making cheats and hypocrites . Let me say with plainness , I who am no longer in a public character , that if by a fair , by an indulgent , by a ...
... morals of public men , by our pos- session of the most infallible receipt in the world for making cheats and hypocrites . Let me say with plainness , I who am no longer in a public character , that if by a fair , by an indulgent , by a ...
Page 133
... morals . All men who wished for peace , or retained any sentiments of moderation , were overborne or silenced ; and this city was led by every artifice ( and probably with the more management , because I was one of your members ) to ...
... morals . All men who wished for peace , or retained any sentiments of moderation , were overborne or silenced ; and this city was led by every artifice ( and probably with the more management , because I was one of your members ) to ...
Page 143
... morals have shamed its ap- pearance in day - light . I have pursued this spirit wherever I could trace it ; but it still fled from me . It was a ghost which all had heard of , but none had seen . None would acknowledge that he thought ...
... morals have shamed its ap- pearance in day - light . I have pursued this spirit wherever I could trace it ; but it still fled from me . It was a ghost which all had heard of , but none had seen . None would acknowledge that he thought ...
Page 145
... morals ) was forged into a crime , punishable with perpe- tual imprisonment . The teaching school , a useful and vir- tuous occupation , even the teaching in a private family , was in every Catholic subjected to the same unproportioned ...
... morals ) was forged into a crime , punishable with perpe- tual imprisonment . The teaching school , a useful and vir- tuous occupation , even the teaching in a private family , was in every Catholic subjected to the same unproportioned ...
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