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The Spirit of Despotism ... - Page 229
by Vicesimus Knox - 1802 - 384 pages
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Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from ...

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...art — to be amongst rich traders, who from their success are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...commutative justice — these are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation. See NOBILITY....
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...art — to be amongst rich traders, who from their success are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...commutative justice — these are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation. See NOBILITY....
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 2

Edmond Burke - 1815 - 218 pages
...ingenuous art — To be amongst rich traders who from their success are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...commutative justice — These are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation. The state of...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 31

1832 - 1102 pages
...ingenuous art ; to be amongst rich traders who, from their success, are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...justice ; — these are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation. " The state of...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal

1834 - 566 pages
...and wealth are the rewards of those who, "for their success, are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice," they are not more honoured now, not more identified with " respectability," than they have ever been...
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The works of Vicesimus Knox, Volume 5

Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 526 pages
...last is, " to be among rich traders, who, from their success, are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...who form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation. Without this," (the writer intimates, in a few subsequent lines,)...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...art — To be amongst rich traders, who from their success are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...commutative justice — These are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation. The state of...
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The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 pages
...art — To be amongst rich traders, who, from their success, are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...commutative justice — These are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation. The state of...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 31

1832 - 1042 pages
...ingenuous art ; to be amongst rich traders who, from their success, are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...justice ; — these are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation. " The state of...
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“The” Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1834 - 618 pages
...ingenuous art — To he among rich traders, who from their success are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...constancy, and regularity, and to have cultivated an hahitual regard to commutative justice — These are the circumstances of men, that form what I should...
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