The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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Page 13
... wholly suppressed , but only suspended , the sentiments of religion , and the love ( as far as it could consist with his designs ) of fair and honorable reputation . Accordingly , we are indebted to this act of his for the preservation ...
... wholly suppressed , but only suspended , the sentiments of religion , and the love ( as far as it could consist with his designs ) of fair and honorable reputation . Accordingly , we are indebted to this act of his for the preservation ...
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... wholly destitute of just notions . 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 ...
... wholly destitute of just notions . 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 ...
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... wholly disavow that practice , and the threat of it too , as any part of their policy , if ever a foreign prince enters into France , he must enter it as into a country of assassins . The mode of civilized war will not be practised nor ...
... wholly disavow that practice , and the threat of it too , as any part of their policy , if ever a foreign prince enters into France , he must enter it as into a country of assassins . The mode of civilized war will not be practised nor ...
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... wholly unable to bear so much as the sight of those men in the throne of legislation who are only fit to be the objects of criminal justice . If fatigue , if disgust , if unsurmountable nausea drive them away from such spectacles , ubi ...
... wholly unable to bear so much as the sight of those men in the throne of legislation who are only fit to be the objects of criminal justice . If fatigue , if disgust , if unsurmountable nausea drive them away from such spectacles , ubi ...
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... wholly to destroy conditions , to dissolve relations , to change the state of the nation , and to subvert property , in order to fit their country to their theory of a Constitution . Until you make out practically that great work , a ...
... wholly to destroy conditions , to dissolve relations , to change the state of the nation , and to subvert property , in order to fit their country to their theory of a Constitution . Until you make out practically that great work , a ...
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