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" The laws reach but a very little way. Constitute government how you please^ infinitely the greater part of it must depend upon the exercise of the powers which are left at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. "
Lord Elgin - Page 265
by John George Bourinot - 1905 - 276 pages
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends upon them. Without them, your commonwealth is no better...scheme upon paper ; and not a living, active, effective constitution. It is possible that through negligence, or ignorance, or design artfully conducted, ministers...
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Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from ...

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends upon them. Without them, your commonwealth is no better than a scheme upon paper ; and not a living, acting, effective constitution. It is possible, that through negligence, or ignorance, or design artfully...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends upon them. Without them, your commonwealth is no better than a scheme upon paper ; and not a living, acting, effective constitution. It is possible, that through negligence, or ignorance, or design artfully...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 pages
...the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends upon them. Without them, your commonwealth is no better than a scheme upon paper ; and not a living, acting, effective constitution. It is possible, that through negligence, or ignorance, or design artfully...
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 1

Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pages
...the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends upon them. Without them, your commonwealth is no better than a scheme upon paper ; and not a living, acting, effective constitution. It is possible, that through negligence, or ignorance, or design artfully...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1766 - 458 pages
...prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends upon upon them. Without them, your commonwealth is no better...scheme upon paper ; and not a living, active, effective constitution. It is possible, that through negligence, or ignorance, or design artfully conducted,...
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The New-England Magazine, Volume 7

Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - 1834 - 542 pages
...the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends upon them. Without them your commonwealth is no better...scheme upon paper, and not a living, active, effective constitution. * * When, therefore, the abettors of the new system tell us, that between them and their...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends upon them. Without them, your commonwealth is no better...scheme upon paper ; and not a living, active, effective constitution. It is possible that through negligence, or ignorance, or design artfully conducted, ministers...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the nse and potency of the .aws depends xigencies" This is plain speaking ; after this, it is no wonder that the rajah's wealth and his constitution. It is possible, that tbrough negligence, or ignorance, or design artfully conducted,...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 pages
...the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends constitution. It is possible that through negligence, or ignorance, or design artfully conducted, ministers...
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