The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... means every sort of state , however con- stituted . " He ought , ” says this great political doc- tor , " to consider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military ...
... means every sort of state , however con- stituted . " He ought , ” says this great political doc- tor , " to consider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military ...
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... means of destroying have been reckoned at 1,200,000 . But to give your lordship an idea that may serve as a standard , by which to measure , in some degree , the others ; you will turn your eyes on Judea ; a very inconsiderable spot of ...
... means of destroying have been reckoned at 1,200,000 . But to give your lordship an idea that may serve as a standard , by which to measure , in some degree , the others ; you will turn your eyes on Judea ; a very inconsiderable spot of ...
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... means that simple nature has supplied them with , are by no means adequate to such an end ; many scratches , many bruises undoubtedly would be received upon all hands ; but only a few , a very few deaths . Society and politics , which ...
... means that simple nature has supplied them with , are by no means adequate to such an end ; many scratches , many bruises undoubtedly would be received upon all hands ; but only a few , a very few deaths . Society and politics , which ...
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... means which can be invented ; and they are kept in a perpetual terror by the horrors of a state inquisition . Here you see a people deprived of all rational freedom , and tyrannized over by about two thousand men ; and yet this body of ...
... means which can be invented ; and they are kept in a perpetual terror by the horrors of a state inquisition . Here you see a people deprived of all rational freedom , and tyrannized over by about two thousand men ; and yet this body of ...
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... mean and senseless debauchery and extravagance ? But if this people resembled Nero in their extrava- gance , much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice . In the time of Pericles , one of the most celebrated ...
... mean and senseless debauchery and extravagance ? But if this people resembled Nero in their extrava- gance , much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice . In the time of Pericles , one of the most celebrated ...
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