 | Edmund Burke - 1923 - 468 sivua
...oneself, or to care more or less for one's own life, is a lesson to be learned just as every other ; and I believe it will be found that conspiracies have been...most extensive and most severe. Besides the least excuse in this way excites a tenderness in the milder sort of people which makes them consider government... | |
 | V. A. C. Gatrell, Vic Gatrell - 1994 - 660 sivua
...was a threshold beyond which the number of executions could not safely pass: the least excess . . . excites a tenderness in the milder sort of people, which makes them consider government in a harsh and odious light. The sense of justice in men is overloaded and fatigued with a long series... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2000 - 540 sivua
...or to care, more or less, for one's own life, is a lesson to be learned just as every other; and I believe it will be found, that conspiracies have been...punishment has been most extensive and most severe. 2 Lighters were flat-bottomed barges often used to hold prisoners on the Thames. Besides, the least... | |
 | Luke Gibbons - 2003 - 326 sivua
...oneself, or to care, more or less, for ones own life, is a lesson to be learned just as any other; and I believe it will be found, that conspiracies have been...punishment has been most extensive and most severe. ('Reflections on Executions', v, 517) Or as he expresses it in the Reflections, with a characteristic... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1923 - 470 sivua
...oneself, or to care more or less for one's own life, is a lesson to be learned just as every other ; and I believe it will be found that conspiracies have been...most extensive and most severe. Besides the least excuse in this way excites a tenderness in the milder sort of people which makes them consider government... | |
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Men, who see their lives respected and thought of value by others, come to respect that gift of God themselves. To have compassion for oneself, or to care, more or less, for one's own life, is a lesson to be learned just as every other ; and I believe... 
