The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... persons who call themselves the friends or admirers of the late Edmund Burke will have the goodness to transmit , without delay , any notices of that or of any other kind which may happen to be in their posses- sion or within their ...
... persons who call themselves the friends or admirers of the late Edmund Burke will have the goodness to transmit , without delay , any notices of that or of any other kind which may happen to be in their posses- sion or within their ...
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... persons have thought that the advantages of the state of nature ought to have been more fully displayed . This had undoubtedly been a very ample subject for declamation ; but they do not consider the character of the piece . The writers ...
... persons have thought that the advantages of the state of nature ought to have been more fully displayed . This had undoubtedly been a very ample subject for declamation ; but they do not consider the character of the piece . The writers ...
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... persons to form one family ; he therefore judged that he would find his account proportion- ably in an union of many families into one body poli- tic . And as nature has formed no bond of union to hold them together , he supplied this ...
... persons to form one family ; he therefore judged that he would find his account proportion- ably in an union of many families into one body poli- tic . And as nature has formed no bond of union to hold them together , he supplied this ...
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... persons concerned , are not taken into the account . These wars , I mean those called the Punic wars , could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very ...
... persons concerned , are not taken into the account . These wars , I mean those called the Punic wars , could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very ...
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... persons become victims of his sus- picions . The slightest displeasure is death ; and a disagreeable aspect is often as great a crime as high treason . In the court of Nero , a person of learning , of unquestioned merit , and of ...
... persons become victims of his sus- picions . The slightest displeasure is death ; and a disagreeable aspect is often as great a crime as high treason . In the court of Nero , a person of learning , of unquestioned merit , and of ...
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