The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... raise our ardor for more . The miseries derived to mankind from superstition under the name of religion , and of ecclesiastical tyranny under the name of church gov- ernment , have been clearly and usefully exposed . We begin to think ...
... raise our ardor for more . The miseries derived to mankind from superstition under the name of religion , and of ecclesiastical tyranny under the name of church gov- ernment , have been clearly and usefully exposed . We begin to think ...
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... raised by his own oppression are the effects of disaffection to the prince's government . Then is the natural violence of despotism inflamed and aggra- vated by hatred and revenge . To deserve well of the state is a crime against the ...
... raised by his own oppression are the effects of disaffection to the prince's government . Then is the natural violence of despotism inflamed and aggra- vated by hatred and revenge . To deserve well of the state is a crime against the ...
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... raised above the others , is completed by their suspicions , and their dread of losing an authority , which has no sup- port in the common utility of the nation . A Genoese or a Venetian republic is a concealed despotism ; where you ...
... raised above the others , is completed by their suspicions , and their dread of losing an authority , which has no sup- port in the common utility of the nation . A Genoese or a Venetian republic is a concealed despotism ; where you ...
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... raising Ideas of Things . · III . General Words before Ideas IV . The Effect of Words V. Examples that Words may affect without raising Images VI . Poetry not strictly an Imitative Art VII . How Words influence the Passions 246 • 249 ...
... raising Ideas of Things . · III . General Words before Ideas IV . The Effect of Words V. Examples that Words may affect without raising Images VI . Poetry not strictly an Imitative Art VII . How Words influence the Passions 246 • 249 ...
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... images to the whole species , it must necessari- ly be allowed , that the pleasures and the pains which every object excites in one man , it must raise in all mankind , whilst it operates naturally , simply , and 82 INTRODUCTION .
... images to the whole species , it must necessari- ly be allowed , that the pleasures and the pains which every object excites in one man , it must raise in all mankind , whilst it operates naturally , simply , and 82 INTRODUCTION .
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