The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... spirit of a parochial administration , is sense- less and absurd , in any mode or with any qualifi- cations . I can never be convinced that the scheme of placing the highest powers of the state in church- wardens and constables and ...
... spirit of a parochial administration , is sense- less and absurd , in any mode or with any qualifi- cations . I can never be convinced that the scheme of placing the highest powers of the state in church- wardens and constables and ...
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... spirit and character been discovered , would have been an 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 ...
... spirit and character been discovered , would have been an 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 ...
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... 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 perfect depravity of sentiment is not reconcilable with eloquence 82 LETTER TO A MEMBER.
... 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 perfect depravity of sentiment is not reconcilable with eloquence 82 LETTER TO A MEMBER.
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... spirit of our Commander - in - Chief and the Captain of our Salvation than those who have left you though I must first bolt myself very thorough- ly , and know that I could do better , before I can cen- şure them . I assure you , Sir ...
... spirit of our Commander - in - Chief and the Captain of our Salvation than those who have left you though I must first bolt myself very thorough- ly , and know that I could do better , before I can cen- şure them . I assure you , Sir ...
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... 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 to the brink of the gulf of guilt and public misery that yawned before them in the abyss ...
... 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 to the brink of the gulf of guilt and public misery that yawned before them in the abyss ...
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