The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... human prudence , noth- ing seems a surer antidote to the poison of fraud than its detection . It is true , the fraud may be swallowed after this discovery , and perhaps even swallowed the more greedily for being a detected fraud . Men ...
... human prudence , noth- ing seems a surer antidote to the poison of fraud than its detection . It is true , the fraud may be swallowed after this discovery , and perhaps even swallowed the more greedily for being a detected fraud . Men ...
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... human intercourse , and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others . But when men whom we know to be wicked impose upon us , we are something worse than dupes . When we ...
... human intercourse , and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others . But when men whom we know to be wicked impose upon us , we are something worse than dupes . When we ...
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... human society cannot subsist , that it was not his particular government , but civil order itself , which , as a judge , he wished him to support . Cromwell knew how to separate the institutions ex- pedient to his usurpation from the ...
... human society cannot subsist , that it was not his particular government , but civil order itself , which , as a judge , he wished him to support . Cromwell knew how to separate the institutions ex- pedient to his usurpation from the ...
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... human nature than that of the Turk ; yet , on mere motives of policy , that prince has interposed , with the threat of all his force , to snatch even the Turk from the pounces of the Impe- rial eagle . If this is done in favor of a ...
... human nature than that of the Turk ; yet , on mere motives of policy , that prince has interposed , with the threat of all his force , to snatch even the Turk from the pounces of the Impe- rial eagle . If this is done in favor of a ...
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... human race . I am not apprehensive , that , in speaking freely on the subject of the king and queen of France , I shall accelerate ( as you fear ) the execution of traitorous designs against them . You are of opinion , Sir , that the ...
... human race . I am not apprehensive , that , in speaking freely on the subject of the king and queen of France , I shall accelerate ( as you fear ) the execution of traitorous designs against them . You are of opinion , Sir , that the ...
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