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" ... when you separate the common sort of men from their proper chieftains so as to form them into an adverse army, I no longer know that venerable object called the people in such a disbanded race of deserters and vagabonds. "
The works of Vicesimus Knox - Page 310
by Vicesimus Knox - 1824
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History of English Literature...

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1904 - 524 pages
...society." — Burke's Works, v. 109; Reflection!. VOL. m. l 146 THE CLASSIC AGE. BOOK m. . . . when yon separate the common sort of men from their proper...such a disbanded race of deserters and vagabonds." l We detest with all our power of hatred the right of tyranny which you give them over others, and...
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Edmund Burke, Apostle of Justice and Liberty

T. Dundas Pillans - Political science - 1905 - 214 pages
...break up this " beautiful order, this array of truth and nature, as " well as of habit and prejudice; when you separate " the common sort of men from their...venerable object " called the people in such a disbanded army of " deserters and vagabonds." But while Burke professed a certain opportunism in practical statesmanship...
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English Prose: Eighteenth century

Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1911 - 664 pages
...break up this beautiful order, this array of truth and nature, as well as of habit and prejudice ; when you separate the common sort of men from their...such a disbanded race of deserters and vagabonds. For a while they may be terrible indeed ; but in such a manner as wild beasts are terrible. The mind owes...
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The Tory Tradition: Bolingbroke--Burke--Disraeli--Salisbury

Sir Geoffrey Gilbert Butler - Conservatism - 1914 - 184 pages
...break up this beautiful order, this array of truth and nature, as well as of habit and prejudice ; when you separate the common sort of men from their...such a disbanded race of deserters and vagabonds." 1 Burke's postulate then that the State is an organism is closely joined with two corollaries — an...
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Burke's Politics: A Study in Whig Orthodoxy

Frederick Dreyer - Biography & Autobiography - 1979 - 104 pages
...break up this beautiful order, this array of truth and Nature, as well as of habit and prejudice, — when you separate the common sort of men from their...such a disbanded race of deserters and vagabonds. . . . The mind owes to them no sort of submission. They are, as they have always been reputed, rebels....
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Die Wiederkehr der Klugheit: Edmund Burke und das Augustan Age

Detmar Doering - Classicism - 1990 - 330 pages
...break up this beautiful order, this array of truth and Nature, äs well äs of habit and prejudice, - when you separate the common sort of men from their proper chieftains, so äs to form them into an adverse army, - I no longer know that venerable object called the people in...
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Medievalism in North America

Kathleen Verduin - History - 1994 - 260 pages
...despised.17 For example, consider Burke's attitude in the following quotation from the same essay: when you separate the common sort of men from their...such a disbanded race of deserters and vagabonds. For a while they may be terrible indeed; but in such a manner as wild beasts are terrible. The mind owes...
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Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Edmund Burke - History - 1997 - 720 pages
...break up this beautiful order, this array of truth and Nature, as well as of habit and prejudice — when you separate the common sort of men from their...such a disbanded race of deserters and vagabonds. . . . To apply this to our present subject. When the several orders, in their several bailliages, had...
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Der verbotene Philosoph: Studien zu den Anfängen der katholischen Nietzsche ...

Peter Köster - Philosophy - 1998 - 372 pages
...fertigen toir aber biefen wibrigen ilublict mit ben baju jcljr geeigneten Sßorten SBurfee: „I.no longer know that venerable object called the people in such a disbanded race of deserters." Snmitten be? uDtarfttreibenS fann man bergeftalt 6e= täubt werben, bufe man eine merfiuürbigc l^atfadje...
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Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders

Don Herzog - History - 2000 - 580 pages
...in Works, 3:331. 45 Association Papers (London, 1793), pt. 2, no. 10, pp. 4-5. themselves as people. "When you separate the common sort of men from their proper chieftains," urged Burke, "I no longer know that venerable object called the people in such a disbanded race of...
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