The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... in their former places and they thought they received but a poor recompense for this disappointment , in seeing every mode of religion attacked in a lively manner , and the foundation of every virtue , and of all PREFACE. ...
... in their former places and they thought they received but a poor recompense for this disappointment , in seeing every mode of religion attacked in a lively manner , and the foundation of every virtue , and of all PREFACE. ...
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... virtue , by denying that vice and vir- tue are distinguished by good or ill fortune here , or by happiness or misery hereafter ? Do they imag- ine they shall increase our piety , and our reliance on God , by exploding his providence ...
... virtue , by denying that vice and vir- tue are distinguished by good or ill fortune here , or by happiness or misery hereafter ? Do they imag- ine they shall increase our piety , and our reliance on God , by exploding his providence ...
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... virtue , which necessarily depends upon the knowl- edge of truth ; that is , upon the knowledge of those unalterable relations which - Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other . These relations , which are ...
... virtue , which necessarily depends upon the knowl- edge of truth ; that is , upon the knowledge of those unalterable relations which - Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other . These relations , which are ...
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... virtue was unnatural and foreign to the mind of man . The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many accounts of their butcheries . All empires have been cemented in blood ; and , in those early periods , when the race of mankind ...
... virtue was unnatural and foreign to the mind of man . The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many accounts of their butcheries . All empires have been cemented in blood ; and , in those early periods , when the race of mankind ...
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... virtue . But unbounded power proceeds step by step , until it has eradicated every laudable principle . It has been remarked , that there is no prince so bad , whose favorites and ministers are not worse . There is hardly any prince ...
... virtue . But unbounded power proceeds step by step , until it has eradicated every laudable principle . It has been remarked , that there is no prince so bad , whose favorites and ministers are not worse . There is hardly any prince ...
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