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" Burke, as an instance of Energetic brevity, is in this manner brought in at the close of a more expanded exhibition of the sentiment, as a condensed conclusion of the whole. " Power, of some kind or other, will survive the shock in which manners and opinions... "
Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge, ed. by E ... - Page 255
by Encyclopaedia - 1845
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Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from ...

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. But power, of some kind or other, will survive the shock...manners and opinions perish; and it will find other and worse means for its support. The 'usurpation which, in order to subvert ancient institutions, has...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. But power, of some kind or other, will survive the shock...manners and opinions perish; and it will find other and worse means for its support. The usurpation which, in order to subvert ancient institutions, has...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pages
...mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. But power, of some kind or other, will survive the shock...manners and opinions perish ; and it will find other and worse means for its support. The usurpation which, in order to subvert ancient institutions, has...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1811 - 252 pages
...mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. But power, of some kind or other, will survive the shock...manners and opinions perish; and it will find other and worse means for its support. The usurpation which, in order to subvert ancient institutions, has...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain ...

Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pages
...mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. But power, of some kind or other, will survive the shock...manners and opinions perish ; and it will find other and worse means for its support . The usurpation which, in order to subvert ancient institutions, has...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 5

Edmund Burke - 1815 - 464 pages
...would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. 8 But But power, of some kind or other, will survive the shock...manners and opinions perish; and it will find other and worse means for its support. The usurpation which, in order to subvert ancient institutions, has...
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 1

Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pages
...mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. But power, of some kind or other, will survive the shock...manners and opinions perish; and it will find other and worse means for its support. The usurpation which, in order to subvert ancient institutions, has...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France, Volumes 1-2

Edmund Burke - 1821 - 380 pages
...mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. But power, of some kind or other, will survive the shock...manners and opinions perish ; and it will find other and worse means for its support. The usurpation which, in order to subvert ancient institutions, has...
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Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the ...

Richard Whately - 1828 - 424 pages
...the will be, pra ctjcal i y , The hearers of the prepared to ° - t *vvho are to ohpv it K";«^ -H u an instance of Energetic brevity, is in this manner...of a more expanded exhibition of the sentiment, as fX condensed conclusion of the whole. ' 4 f* ov ^3r, of some kind or other, will survive the which...
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Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the ...

Richard Whately - 1833 - 376 pages
...uttered; and if it be, there is no need of the subsequent expansion. The sentence recently quoted from Burke, as an instance of Energetic brevity, is in...manners and opinions perish; and it will find other and worse means for its support. The usurpation which, in order to subvert ancient institutions, has...
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