The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... danger of letting the imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation it- self ; and that if we were to examine the ...
... danger of letting the imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation it- self ; and that if we were to examine the ...
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... dangerous ; that ill conclusions can only flow from false propositions ; and that , to know whether any proposition be true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences . These were the reasons which ...
... dangerous ; that ill conclusions can only flow from false propositions ; and that , to know whether any proposition be true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences . These were the reasons which ...
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... dangerous consequences . Absurd and blasphemous notion ! as if all happiness was not connected with the practice of virtue , which necessarily depends upon the knowl- edge of truth ; that is , upon the knowledge of those unalterable ...
... dangerous consequences . Absurd and blasphemous notion ! as if all happiness was not connected with the practice of virtue , which necessarily depends upon the knowl- edge of truth ; that is , upon the knowledge of those unalterable ...
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... little weakened ; but we do not think ourselves entitled to alter his lordship's words , but that we are bound to follow him exactly . eral calamity ; the protection granted in emergent danger ; 14 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... little weakened ; but we do not think ourselves entitled to alter his lordship's words , but that we are bound to follow him exactly . eral calamity ; the protection granted in emergent danger ; 14 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
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Edmund Burke. eral calamity ; the protection granted in emergent danger ; the mutual return of kindness and civility , would afford a very ample and very pleasing subject for history . But , alas ! all the history of all times ...
Edmund Burke. eral calamity ; the protection granted in emergent danger ; the mutual return of kindness and civility , would afford a very ample and very pleasing subject for history . But , alas ! all the history of all times ...
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