The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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Page 25
... amongst their leaders , which of them is the best resemblance of Rousseau . In truth , they all resemble him . His blood they transfuse into their minds and into their manners . Him they study ; him they meditate ; him they turn over in ...
... amongst their leaders , which of them is the best resemblance of Rousseau . In truth , they all resemble him . His blood they transfuse into their minds and into their manners . Him they study ; him they meditate ; him they turn over in ...
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... amongst you , ) a set of pert , petulant literators , to whom , instead of their proper , but severe , unostenta- tious duties , they assign the brilliant part of men of wit and pleasure , of gay , young , military sparks , and danglers ...
... amongst you , ) a set of pert , petulant literators , to whom , instead of their proper , but severe , unostenta- tious duties , they assign the brilliant part of men of wit and pleasure , of gay , young , military sparks , and danglers ...
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... Amongst his irreg- ularities , it must be reckoned that he is sometimes moral , and moral in a very sublime strain . But the general spirit and tendency of his works is mischiev- ous , and the more mischievous for this mixture : - for ...
... Amongst his irreg- ularities , it must be reckoned that he is sometimes moral , and moral in a very sublime strain . But the general spirit and tendency of his works is mischiev- ous , and the more mischievous for this mixture : - for ...
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... amongst a people of it- self but too apt to be guided by a heated imagina- tion and a wild spirit of adventure ? The fault of M. Mounier and M. Lally was very great ; but it was very general . If those gentlemen stopped , when they came ...
... amongst a people of it- self but too apt to be guided by a heated imagina- tion and a wild spirit of adventure ? The fault of M. Mounier and M. Lally was very great ; but it was very general . If those gentlemen stopped , when they came ...
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... amongst the effects of unremitted labor , when men exhaust their attention , burn out their candles , and are left in the dark . Malo meorum negligentiam , quam istorum obscuram diligentiam . You never give yourselves from its proper ...
... amongst the effects of unremitted labor , when men exhaust their attention , burn out their candles , and are left in the dark . Malo meorum negligentiam , quam istorum obscuram diligentiam . You never give yourselves from its proper ...
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