The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... whole . The first and second volumes , as before , severally contain those literary and philosophical works by which Mr. Burke was known previous to the commencement of his public life as a statesman , and the political pieces which ...
... whole . The first and second volumes , as before , severally contain those literary and philosophical works by which Mr. Burke was known previous to the commencement of his public life as a statesman , and the political pieces which ...
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... whole fabric . You would readily have allowed my principle , but you dreaded the consequences ; you thought , that having once entered upon these reasonings , we might be car- ried insensibly and irresistibly farther than at first we ...
... whole fabric . You would readily have allowed my principle , but you dreaded the consequences ; you thought , that having once entered upon these reasonings , we might be car- ried insensibly and irresistibly farther than at first we ...
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... whole in blood and slaughter . The kings of Syria and of Egypt , the kings of Per- gamus and Macedon , without intermission worried each other for above two hundred years ; until at last a strong power , arising in the west , rushed in ...
... whole in blood and slaughter . The kings of Syria and of Egypt , the kings of Per- gamus and Macedon , without intermission worried each other for above two hundred years ; until at last a strong power , arising in the west , rushed in ...
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... whole earth . The extent of this war , which vexed so many nations , and both elements , and the havoc of the human species caused in both , really astonishes beyond expression , when it is nakedly considered , and those matters which ...
... whole earth . The extent of this war , which vexed so many nations , and both elements , and the havoc of the human species caused in both , really astonishes beyond expression , when it is nakedly considered , and those matters which ...
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... whole cities and nations ; those wast- ing pestilences , those consuming famines , and all those furies that follow in the train of war ? I have no need to exaggerate ; and I have purposely avoided a parade of eloquence on this occasion ...
... whole cities and nations ; those wast- ing pestilences , those consuming famines , and all those furies that follow in the train of war ? I have no need to exaggerate ; and I have purposely avoided a parade of eloquence on this occasion ...
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