The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... duties , never himself made any collection of the various publications with which , during a period of forty years , he adorned and enriched the literature of this country . When , however , the rapid and unexampled demand for his ...
... duties , never himself made any collection of the various publications with which , during a period of forty years , he adorned and enriched the literature of this country . When , however , the rapid and unexampled demand for his ...
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... is not Even in matters which are , as it were , just within our reach , what would become of the world , if the practice of all moral duties , and the ness . our own . foundations of society , rested upon having their rea- sons 6 PREFACE .
... is not Even in matters which are , as it were , just within our reach , what would become of the world , if the practice of all moral duties , and the ness . our own . foundations of society , rested upon having their rea- sons 6 PREFACE .
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... duties and commandments of natural religion , which by these forms and institutions he pre- tends to enforce . The lawyer has his forms , and his positive institutions too , and he adheres to them with a veneration altogether as ...
... duties and commandments of natural religion , which by these forms and institutions he pre- tends to enforce . The lawyer has his forms , and his positive institutions too , and he adheres to them with a veneration altogether as ...
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... duties of every kind depends upon life , and the performing them with vigor and efficacy depends upon health , we are very strongly affected with whatever threatens the destruction of either : but as we were not made to acquiesce in ...
... duties of every kind depends upon life , and the performing them with vigor and efficacy depends upon health , we are very strongly affected with whatever threatens the destruction of either : but as we were not made to acquiesce in ...
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... duties from their proper basis ( our reason , our relations , and our necessities ) , to rest it upon foundations alto- gether visionary and unsubstantial . SECTION XII . THE REAL CAUSE OF BEAUTY . HAVING 190 ON THE SUBLIME AND ...
... duties from their proper basis ( our reason , our relations , and our necessities ) , to rest it upon foundations alto- gether visionary and unsubstantial . SECTION XII . THE REAL CAUSE OF BEAUTY . HAVING 190 ON THE SUBLIME AND ...
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