The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page xv
... connected , - as indeed it also is , much more than is generally known , with the state of liter- ature and the elegant arts . Such a subject of biog- raphy cannot be dismissed with a slight and rapid touch ; nor can it be treated in a ...
... connected , - as indeed it also is , much more than is generally known , with the state of liter- ature and the elegant arts . Such a subject of biog- raphy cannot be dismissed with a slight and rapid touch ; nor can it be treated in a ...
Page xvii
... connected with the Marquis of Rock- ingham and his being chosen member for Bristol . In the third are comprehended all his speeches and pamphlets from his first arrival at Bristol , as a can- didate , in the year 1774 , to his farewell ...
... connected with the Marquis of Rock- ingham and his being chosen member for Bristol . In the third are comprehended all his speeches and pamphlets from his first arrival at Bristol , as a can- didate , in the year 1774 , to his farewell ...
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... connected with the practice of virtue , which necessarily depends upon the knowl- edge of truth ; that is , upon the knowledge of those unalterable relations which - Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other ...
... connected with the practice of virtue , which necessarily depends upon the knowl- edge of truth ; that is , upon the knowledge of those unalterable relations which - Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other ...
Page 13
... connected ; and whilst we re- ceive government as a thing necessary , or even use- ful to our well - being , we shall in spite of us draw in , as a necessary , though undesirable consequence , an artificial religion of some kind or ...
... connected ; and whilst we re- ceive government as a thing necessary , or even use- ful to our well - being , we shall in spite of us draw in , as a necessary , though undesirable consequence , an artificial religion of some kind or ...
Page 21
... overthrown ; and he crushed to pieces the king of Armenia , his ally , by the great- ness of his ruin . All who had connections with him shared the same fate . The merciless genius of Sylla À VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 21.
... overthrown ; and he crushed to pieces the king of Armenia , his ally , by the great- ness of his ruin . All who had connections with him shared the same fate . The merciless genius of Sylla À VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 21.
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