Explanation: It does not institute a magnificent auction of finance, where captivated provinces come to general ransom by bidding against each other, until you knock down the hammer, and determine a proportion of payments beyond all the powers of algebra to ...
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Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion; and ever will be so, as long as the world endures
Explanation: Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion; and ever will be so, as long as the world endures. Answer: The quoted sentence occurs in the introductory part of Edmund Burke’s famous delivery “Speech on Conciliation with America”. Burke here ...
Public calamity is a mighty leveler; and there are occasions when any…by the most inconsiderable person
Explanation: Public calamity is a mighty leveler; and there are occasions when any, even the slightest chance of doing good, must be laid hold on, even by the most inconsiderable person. Answer: The quoted lines have been extracted from the celebrated ...
If anything were wanting to this necessary operation of the form of government, religion would have given it a complete effect
Explanation: If anything were wanting to this necessary operation of the form of government, religion would have given it a complete effect. Answer: The lines occur in Burke’s “Speech on Conciliation with America”, an unforgettable piece in the tradition of ...
the use of force alone is but temporary…. but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again
Explanation: … the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again. Answer: The lines occur in Burke’s “Speech on Conciliation with America”, an unforgettable piece in ...
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Explanation: Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Answer: The lines have been extracted from Edmund Burke’s “Speech on Conciliation with America”, an unforgettable piece in the tradition of ...
It is simple peace; sought in its natural course,… and laid in principles purely pacific
Explanation: It is simple peace; sought in its natural course, and in its ordinary haunts.- It is peace sought in the spirit of peace; and laid in principles purely pacific. Answer: The quoted lines occur in the introductory part of Edmund Burke’s famous delivery ...
It was not English arms, but the English Constitution, that conquered Ireland
Explanation: It was not English arms, but the English Constitution, that conquered Ireland. Answer: The sentence has been extracted from Edmund Burke’s “Speech on Conciliation with America”, an unforgettable piece in the tradition of British parliamentary speeches. Burke here, by citing ...
Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory
Explanation: Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. Answer: The sentence occurs in Burke’s “Speech on Conciliation with America”, an unforgettable piece in the tradition of British parliamentary speeches. Here Burke shows one of ...
Aristotle, the great master of reasoning, cautions us, ess and…arguments as the most fallacious of all sophistry
Explanation: Aristotle, the great master of reasoning, cautions us, ess and with great weight and propriety, against this species of delusive geometrical accuracy in moral arguments as the most fallacious of all sophistry. Answer: The lines have been extracted from Edmund Burke’s ...