The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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... whole topic , indeed , nearly as it stands in the three hundred and seventy - third and fourth pages , was * The former comprising the matter included between the para- graph commencing , " I hear it has been said , " & c . , and that ...
... whole topic , indeed , nearly as it stands in the three hundred and seventy - third and fourth pages , was * The former comprising the matter included between the para- graph commencing , " I hear it has been said , " & c . , and that ...
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... whole fabric . You would readily have allowed my principle , but you dreaded the consequences ; you thought , that having once entered upon these reasonings , we might be car- ried insensibly and irresistibly farther than at first we ...
... whole fabric . You would readily have allowed my principle , but you dreaded the consequences ; you thought , that having once entered upon these reasonings , we might be car- ried insensibly and irresistibly farther than at first we ...
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... whole order of her system , by a compli- ance with our pride and folly , to conform to our arti- ficial regulations . It is by a conformity to this method we owe the discovery of the few truths we know , and the little liberty and ...
... whole order of her system , by a compli- ance with our pride and folly , to conform to our arti- ficial regulations . It is by a conformity to this method we owe the discovery of the few truths we know , and the little liberty and ...
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... was made . You will give a glance at the whole , and you will agree with me , that to form this hero no less than twelve hundred thousand lives must have been sacrificed ; but no sooner had 18 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... was made . You will give a glance at the whole , and you will agree with me , that to form this hero no less than twelve hundred thousand lives must have been sacrificed ; but no sooner had 18 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
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... whole cities and nations ; those wast- ing pestilences , those consuming famines , and all those furies that follow in the train of war ? I have no need to exaggerate ; and I have purposely avoided a parade of eloquence on this occasion ...
... whole cities and nations ; those wast- ing pestilences , those consuming famines , and all those furies that follow in the train of war ? I have no need to exaggerate ; and I have purposely avoided a parade of eloquence on this occasion ...
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