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" ... bitter potion to a distempered state. Times, and occasions, and provocations, will teach their own lessons. The wise will determine from the gravity of the case ; the irritable from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded from disdain and indignation... "
Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Page 411
by Thomas Brown - 1822
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The Life of Edmund Burke: Comprehending and Impartial Account of ..., Volume 2

Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pages
....wise will determine from the gravity of the case ; the irritable, from sensibility to oppressive, the high-minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive...the very last resource of the thinking and the good/ . i I have hitherto, in this work, endeavoured to estimate its character as an eviction of truth, an...
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Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from ...

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable from sensibility to oppression ; the high minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy...the very last resource of the thinking and the good. DESPOTISM. IT is the nature of despotism to abhor power held by any means but its own momentary pleasure;...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable from sensibility to oppression ; the high minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy...the very last resource of the thinking and the good. . DESPOTISM. IT is the nature of despotism to abhor power held by any means but its own momentary pleasure;...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pages
...minds. The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end, and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. It is not...the very last resource of the thinking and the good. The third head of right, asserted by the pulpit of the Old Jewry, namely, the " right to form a government...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain ...

Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pages
...and provocations, will teach their own lessons. — The wise will determine from the gravity of.the case ; the irritable from sensibility to oppression...the very last resource of the thinking and the good. The third head of right, asserted by the pulpit of the Old Jewry, namely, the " right to form a government...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 5

Edmund Burke - 1815 - 464 pages
...definable. It is not a single act, or a single event, determines it. Governments must be abused abased and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of;...the very last resource of the thinking and the good. The third head of right, asserted by the pulpit of the Old Jewry, namely, the " right to form a " government...
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 1

Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pages
...determine from the gravity of the case ; the irritable from sensibility to oppression ; the high minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy...the very last resource of the thinking and the good. DESPOTISM. IT is the nature of despotism to abhor power held by any means but its own momentary pleasure...
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The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflections

1821 - 362 pages
...will teach their own lessons. — The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritahle from sensibility to oppression ; the highminded from...the very last resource of the thinking and the good. The third head of right, asserted by the pulpit of the Old Jewry, namely, the " right to form a government...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2

Thomas Brown - 1826 - 522 pages
...relief from it by other means be truly gloomy, before he will lift his voice to call his fellow-citizens to arm against their fellow-citizens. " The speculative...occasions, and provocations, teach their terrible lesson. When the rare imperious cases do occur, in which the patriotism that before made obedience...
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Paris, and its historical scenes [by G.L. Craik].

George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 382 pages
..." The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end, and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. It is not...very last resource of the thinking and the good." We proceed now with our history. CHAPTER III. AT at an early hour on the morning of Monday the 26th,...
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