The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... things were expected from the leisure of a man , who , from the splendid scene of action in which his talents had enabled him to make so conspicuous a figure , had retired to em- ploy those talents in the investigation of truth . Phi ...
... things were expected from the leisure of a man , who , from the splendid scene of action in which his talents had enabled him to make so conspicuous a figure , had retired to em- ploy those talents in the investigation of truth . Phi ...
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... things which they , who doubt of everything else , will never permit to be questioned . It is an observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong cause ...
... things which they , who doubt of everything else , will never permit to be questioned . It is an observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong cause ...
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... anybody . They were generally melancholy enough ; as those usually are which carry us beyond the mere surface of things ; and which would undoubtedly make the lives of all thinking men extremely miserable , if the A LETTER TO LORD **** ...
... anybody . They were generally melancholy enough ; as those usually are which carry us beyond the mere surface of things ; and which would undoubtedly make the lives of all thinking men extremely miserable , if the A LETTER TO LORD **** ...
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... things of the last importance . And I could demonstrate that they have had the opportunity of doing all this mischief , nay , that they themselves had their origin and growth from that complex form of government , which we are wisely ...
... things of the last importance . And I could demonstrate that they have had the opportunity of doing all this mischief , nay , that they themselves had their origin and growth from that complex form of government , which we are wisely ...
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... things had a more ferocious appearance than they have at this day . In these early and unrefined ages , the jarring part of a certain chaotic constitution supported their several pretensions by the sword . Experience and policy have ...
... things had a more ferocious appearance than they have at this day . In these early and unrefined ages , the jarring part of a certain chaotic constitution supported their several pretensions by the sword . Experience and policy have ...
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