The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... ACCOUNT OF A LATE SHORT ADMINISTRATION OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION , INTITULED , “ THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION " • • 269 THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS 433 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER . * HE late Mr. Burke.
... ACCOUNT OF A LATE SHORT ADMINISTRATION OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION , INTITULED , “ THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION " • • 269 THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS 433 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER . * HE late Mr. Burke.
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... nation subsist and produce their effect , even after the understanding has been satisfied of their unsubstan- tial nature . There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination , but which neither belongs to ...
... nation subsist and produce their effect , even after the understanding has been satisfied of their unsubstan- tial nature . There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination , but which neither belongs to ...
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... nation to its neighbor ; the support given in public distress ; the relief afforded in gen- * Had his lordship lived to our days , to have seen the noble relief given by this nation to the distressed Portuguese , he had perhaps owned ...
... nation to its neighbor ; the support given in public distress ; the relief afforded in gen- * Had his lordship lived to our days , to have seen the noble relief given by this nation to the distressed Portuguese , he had perhaps owned ...
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... nation in the world ; though the histories of all nations are made up of similar matter . I once more excuse myself in point of exactness for want of books . But I shall estimate the slaughters in this island but at two millions ; which ...
... nation in the world ; though the histories of all nations are made up of similar matter . I once more excuse myself in point of exactness for want of books . But I shall estimate the slaughters in this island but at two millions ; which ...
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... nation . A Genoese or a Venetian republic is a concealed despotism ; where you find the same pride of the rulers , the same base subjection of the people , the same bloody maxims of a suspicious policy . In one respect the aristocracy ...
... nation . A Genoese or a Venetian republic is a concealed despotism ; where you find the same pride of the rulers , the same base subjection of the people , the same bloody maxims of a suspicious policy . In one respect the aristocracy ...
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