Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent & Company, 1919 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina ix
... liberty is extremely rare . It is but too true that there are many whose scheme of freedom is made up of pride , perverseness , and insolence . They feel themselves in a state of thraldom , they imagine that their souls are cooped and ...
... liberty is extremely rare . It is but too true that there are many whose scheme of freedom is made up of pride , perverseness , and insolence . They feel themselves in a state of thraldom , they imagine that their souls are cooped and ...
Pagina x
... liberty they hunger and thirst for ; and this siren song of ambition has charmed ears that we would have thought were never organised to that sort of music . ' To these mingled instincts of arrogance , pedantry , and prejudice Burke ...
... liberty they hunger and thirst for ; and this siren song of ambition has charmed ears that we would have thought were never organised to that sort of music . ' To these mingled instincts of arrogance , pedantry , and prejudice Burke ...
Pagina xiii
... Character , " 1886 ; W. Willis ( Lecture ) , 1889 ; O. Schaedel , 1898 ; T. D. Pillans , " Edmund Burke Apostle of Justice and Liberty , " 1905 . CONTENTS SPEECHES AMERICAN TAXATION SPEECH AT HIS ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL Introduction xiii.
... Character , " 1886 ; W. Willis ( Lecture ) , 1889 ; O. Schaedel , 1898 ; T. D. Pillans , " Edmund Burke Apostle of Justice and Liberty , " 1905 . CONTENTS SPEECHES AMERICAN TAXATION SPEECH AT HIS ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL Introduction xiii.
Pagina 21
... liberty , they could not pay . Hence all your specific and detailed enumerations , hence the innumerable checks and counterchecks , hence that infinite variety of paper chains by which you bind together this complicated system of the ...
... liberty , they could not pay . Hence all your specific and detailed enumerations , hence the innumerable checks and counterchecks , hence that infinite variety of paper chains by which you bind together this complicated system of the ...
Pagina 24
... own internal government . This whole state of commercial servitude and civil liberty , taken together , is certainly not perfect freedom , but comparing it with the ordinary circumstances of human nature it 24 Burke's Speeches.
... own internal government . This whole state of commercial servitude and civil liberty , taken together , is certainly not perfect freedom , but comparing it with the ordinary circumstances of human nature it 24 Burke's Speeches.
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