Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent & Company, 1919 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina xii
... experience , the strong and masculine feeling for the two great political ends of Justice and Freedom , the large and generous interpretation of expediency , the morality , the vision , the noble temper . " It is impossible to think ...
... experience , the strong and masculine feeling for the two great political ends of Justice and Freedom , the large and generous interpretation of expediency , the morality , the vision , the noble temper . " It is impossible to think ...
Pagina 2
... experience has given judgment ; but obstinacy is not yet conquered . The honourable gentleman has made one endeavour more to diversify the form of this disgusting argument . He has thrown out a speech composed almost entirely of ...
... experience has given judgment ; but obstinacy is not yet conquered . The honourable gentleman has made one endeavour more to diversify the form of this disgusting argument . He has thrown out a speech composed almost entirely of ...
Pagina 3
... experience . The mode of deliberation he recommends is diametrically opposite to every rule of reason and every principle of good sense established amongst mankind . For that sense and that reason I have always understood absolutely to ...
... experience . The mode of deliberation he recommends is diametrically opposite to every rule of reason and every principle of good sense established amongst mankind . For that sense and that reason I have always understood absolutely to ...
Pagina 4
... experience which the honourable gentleman reprobates in one instant and reverts to in the next - to that experience , without the least wavering or hesitation on my part , I steadily appeal ; and would to God there was no other arbiter ...
... experience which the honourable gentleman reprobates in one instant and reverts to in the next - to that experience , without the least wavering or hesitation on my part , I steadily appeal ; and would to God there was no other arbiter ...
Pagina 20
... experience , rather to presume the contrary . Do we not know for certain that the Americans are going on as fast as possible , whilst we refuse to gratify them ? Can they do more , or can they do worse , if we yield this { point ? I ...
... experience , rather to presume the contrary . Do we not know for certain that the Americans are going on as fast as possible , whilst we refuse to gratify them ? Can they do more , or can they do worse , if we yield this { point ? I ...
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