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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from ... - Page 149
by Edmund Burke - 1804
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Practical Speaking: As Taught in Yale College

Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...matters of reason, \ and judgment, / and not of inclination ; / and what sort of reason - is that, in which one set of men deliberate, \ and another...three hundred miles distant from those who hear the argument. BURKE. CONVICTION. Finally, there is a peculiar slyle of speaking which not unfrequently...
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Letters on various subjects. [With a portrait.], Volume 5

James Caughey - 1847 - 376 pages
...inclination, it quite altered the case. " What sort of reason is that," he inquired, " which precedes discussion, in which one set of men deliberate, and...form the conclusion are, perhaps, three hundred miles from those who hear the argument ?" After a few masterly strokes, in which he stated the sacrifices...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pages
...judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which determination precedes discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ?" These sentiments, as we shall see hereafter, lost him the vote of Bristol at the next general election....
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 pages
...judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which determination precedes discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ?" These sentiments, as we shall see hereafter, lost him the vote of Bristol at the next general election....
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Select British Eloquence; Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...is that in which determination precedes discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and anothei decide, and where those who form the conclusion are...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ?" These sentiments, as we shall see hereafter, lost him the vote of Bristol at the next general election....
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 pages
...; and what sort of reason is that in which determination precedes discussion, in which one set o£ men deliberate and another decide, and where those...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ?" These sentiments, as we shall see hereafter, lost him the vote of Bristol at the next general election....
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Speeches and Addresses [1839-1854]

Henry Washington Hilliard - 1855 - 510 pages
...reason and judgment, not of inclination. And what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate and another decide ; and when those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the...
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The American Orator's Own Book

1859 - 370 pages
...and judgment, and not of inclination ; and, what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men...deliver an opinion, is the right of all men ; that of constitu ents is a weighty and respectable opinion, which a representative ought always to rejoice,...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 pages
...reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion, in which one set of men deliherate and another decide ? and where those who form the...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments? Parliament" said Mr. BURKE, "is not a congress of amhassadors from different and hostile interests;...
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The Rambler, a Catholic journal of home and foreign literature [&c.]. Vol.5 ...

1861 - 458 pages
...and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ? . . , . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests...
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