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... things , their fears arising from the danger to which the very arduous and critical situation of public affairs may expose their places ; their apprehensions from the hazards to which the discontents of a few popular men at elections ...
... things , their fears arising from the danger to which the very arduous and critical situation of public affairs may expose their places ; their apprehensions from the hazards to which the discontents of a few popular men at elections ...
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... thing is lost , parlia- ment and all . We may assure ourselves , that if liament will tamely see evil men take possession of all the strong holds of their country , and allow them time and means to fortify themselves , under a pre ...
... thing is lost , parlia- ment and all . We may assure ourselves , that if liament will tamely see evil men take possession of all the strong holds of their country , and allow them time and means to fortify themselves , under a pre ...
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... things , no order , uni- formity , dignity , or effect , can appear in our proceed- ings either at home or abroad . Nor will it make much difference , whether some of the constituent parts of such an administration are men of virtue or ...
... things , no order , uni- formity , dignity , or effect , can appear in our proceed- ings either at home or abroad . Nor will it make much difference , whether some of the constituent parts of such an administration are men of virtue or ...
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... thing . If we should come to be in a condition not only to have all this ascendant in commerce , but to be ... things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin . **** There are critical moments in the fortune of all ...
... thing . If we should come to be in a condition not only to have all this ascendant in commerce , but to be ... things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin . **** There are critical moments in the fortune of all ...
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... thing which prevents us from thinking or acting as members for districts . Cornwall elects as many members as all Scotland . But is Cornwall better taken care of than Scotland ? Few trouble their heads about any of your bases , out of ...
... thing which prevents us from thinking or acting as members for districts . Cornwall elects as many members as all Scotland . But is Cornwall better taken care of than Scotland ? Few trouble their heads about any of your bases , out of ...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volumen2 Edmund Burke Vista completa - 1804 |
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Página 62 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, — and ever will be so, as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is, let me say, of no mean force in the government of mankind.
Página 41 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Página 101 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.
Página 139 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of...
Página 63 - Those who quit their proper character, to assume •what does not belong to them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave, and of the character rthey assume.
Página 81 - The science of government being therefore so practical in itself, and intended for such practical purposes, a matter which requires experience, and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and observing he may be, it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice, which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or of building it up again without having models and patterns of approved...
Página 66 - Many of our men of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudices, employ their sagacity to discover the latent wisdom which prevails in them. If they find what they seek (and they seldom fail) they think it more wise to continue the prejudice, with the reason involved, than to cast away the coat of prejudice and to leave nothing but the naked reason...
Página 25 - The strong struggle in every individual to preserve possession of what he has found to belong to him and to distinguish him, is one of the securities against injustice and despotism implanted in our nature. It operates as an instinct to secure property, and to preserve communities in a settled state. What is there to shock in this? Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Página 122 - ... proceeded in supplying government as liberally, if you had not stepped in and hindered them from contributing, by interrupting the channel in which their liberality flowed with so strong a course ; by attempting to take, instead of being satisfied to receive ? Sir William Temple says, that Holland has loaded itself with ten times the impositions which it revolted from Spain, rather than submit to. He says true. Tyranny is a poor provider. It knows neither how to accumulate, nor how to extract.