The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 |
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Page 159
... VIRTUE From what has been said in the foregoing section , we may easily see how far the application of beauty to virtue may be made with propriety . The general application of this quality to virtue has a strong tend- ency to confound ...
... VIRTUE From what has been said in the foregoing section , we may easily see how far the application of beauty to virtue may be made with propriety . The general application of this quality to virtue has a strong tend- ency to confound ...
Page 207
... virtue , honour , persuasion , magistrate , and the like . These I call compound abstract words . Words , I am sensible , are capable of being classed into more curious distinctions ; but these seem to be natural , and enough for our ...
... virtue , honour , persuasion , magistrate , and the like . These I call compound abstract words . Words , I am sensible , are capable of being classed into more curious distinctions ; but these seem to be natural , and enough for our ...
Page 347
... virtue and ability . But where are his men of virtue and ability to be found ? Are they in the present administration ? never were a set of people more blackened by this author . Are they among the party of those ( no small body ) who ...
... virtue and ability . But where are his men of virtue and ability to be found ? Are they in the present administration ? never were a set of people more blackened by this author . Are they among the party of those ( no small body ) who ...
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A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of | 55 |
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