The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... object of precaution to provident minds . What if he had erected his fanatic standard for the destruction of the Christian religion in luce Asia , in the midst of the then noonday splendor of the then civilized world ? The princes of ...
... object of precaution to provident minds . What if he had erected his fanatic standard for the destruction of the Christian religion in luce Asia , in the midst of the then noonday splendor of the then civilized world ? The princes of ...
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... object both of policy and compassion as the Grand Seignior or his states . I do not conceive that the total anni- hilation of France ( if that could be effected ) is a desirable thing to Europe , or even to this its rival nation ...
... object both of policy and compassion as the Grand Seignior or his states . I do not conceive that the total anni- hilation of France ( if that could be effected ) is a desirable thing to Europe , or even to this its rival nation ...
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... king and queen , with an insulting figure * The pillory ( carcan ) in England is generally made very high , like that raised for exposing the king of France over their heads . There they exposed these objects of 22 LETTER TO A MEMBER.
... king and queen , with an insulting figure * The pillory ( carcan ) in England is generally made very high , like that raised for exposing the king of France over their heads . There they exposed these objects of 22 LETTER TO A MEMBER.
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Edmund Burke. over their heads . There they exposed these objects of pity and respect to all good minds to the derision of an unthinking and unprincipled multitude , de- generated even from the versatile tenderness which marks the ...
Edmund Burke. over their heads . There they exposed these objects of pity and respect to all good minds to the derision of an unthinking and unprincipled multitude , de- generated even from the versatile tenderness which marks the ...
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... object is to merge all natural and all social sentiment in inordi- nate vanity . In a small degree , and conversant in little things , vanity is of little moment . When full- grown , it is the worst of vices , and the occasional mimic ...
... object is to merge all natural and all social sentiment in inordi- nate vanity . In a small degree , and conversant in little things , vanity is of little moment . When full- grown , it is the worst of vices , and the occasional mimic ...
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