Burke's Speech on Conciliation with AmericaMacmillan, 1961 - 127 páginas |
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... sense . He wants , not to threaten or to ridicule , but to conciliate and to persuade . It is not meant by this that he is dull or trite . Common sense , as applied to Burke , does not mean commonplace . The speech , like all that he ...
... sense . He wants , not to threaten or to ridicule , but to conciliate and to persuade . It is not meant by this that he is dull or trite . Common sense , as applied to Burke , does not mean commonplace . The speech , like all that he ...
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... sense of this country . — I did not dare to rub off a par- ticle of the venerable rust that rather adorns and preserves , than destroys , the metal . It would be a profanation to touch with a tool the stones which construct the sacred ...
... sense of this country . — I did not dare to rub off a par- ticle of the venerable rust that rather adorns and preserves , than destroys , the metal . It would be a profanation to touch with a tool the stones which construct the sacred ...
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... sense of ' native to the country . ' Lucretius applied it in this sense to springs of water , and Juvenal to stone . In plain English Burke's meaning is- " I shrank from translating into the polished phraseology of modern times the ...
... sense of ' native to the country . ' Lucretius applied it in this sense to springs of water , and Juvenal to stone . In plain English Burke's meaning is- " I shrank from translating into the polished phraseology of modern times the ...
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