Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent & Company, 1919 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina x
... that bog , though in such respectable company . The question with me is , not whether you have a right to render your people miserable , but whether it is not your interest to make " " them happy . It is not what a X Introduction.
... that bog , though in such respectable company . The question with me is , not whether you have a right to render your people miserable , but whether it is not your interest to make " " them happy . It is not what a X Introduction.
Pagina xi
Edmund Burke. " " them happy . It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do , but what humanity , reason , and justice tell me I ought to do . Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper but that which is ...
Edmund Burke. " " them happy . It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do , but what humanity , reason , and justice tell me I ought to do . Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper but that which is ...
Pagina 25
... happy a condition , he says , " I believe they are nowhere better supported than in this province ; I do not pretend that it is entirely free from a breach of these laws , but that such a breach , if discovered , is justly punished ...
... happy a condition , he says , " I believe they are nowhere better supported than in this province ; I do not pretend that it is entirely free from a breach of these laws , but that such a breach , if discovered , is justly punished ...
Pagina 48
... happy . Another scene was opened , and other actors appeared on the stage . The state , in the condition I have described it , was delivered into the hands of Lord Chatham - a great and celebrated name - a name that keeps the name of ...
... happy . Another scene was opened , and other actors appeared on the stage . The state , in the condition I have described it , was delivered into the hands of Lord Chatham - a great and celebrated name - a name that keeps the name of ...
Pagina 57
... happy under that system . Let the memory of all actions in contradiction to that good old mode , on both sides , be extinguished for ever . Be content to bind America by laws of trade ; you have always done it . Let this be your reason ...
... happy under that system . Let the memory of all actions in contradiction to that good old mode , on both sides , be extinguished for ever . Be content to bind America by laws of trade ; you have always done it . Let this be your reason ...
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