The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 57
... death , —if it dignifies our nature with the hope of immortality , leaves inquiry free , whilst it preserves an authority to teach , where authority only can teach , communia altaria , æque ac patriam , diligite , colite , fo- vete . In ...
... death , —if it dignifies our nature with the hope of immortality , leaves inquiry free , whilst it preserves an authority to teach , where authority only can teach , communia altaria , æque ac patriam , diligite , colite , fo- vete . In ...
Page 82
... death of bashaws , yet in no country is power and distinction ( precarious enough , God knows , in all ) sought for with such boundless avidity , as if the value of place was enhanced by the danger and inse- curity of its tenure ...
... death of bashaws , yet in no country is power and distinction ( precarious enough , God knows , in all ) sought for with such boundless avidity , as if the value of place was enhanced by the danger and inse- curity of its tenure ...
Page 171
... death , or a servitude scarcely less cruel , was the certain fate of all conquered peo- ple ; the terror of which hurried men from habita- tions to which they were but little attached , to seek ― security and repose under any climate ...
... death , or a servitude scarcely less cruel , was the certain fate of all conquered peo- ple ; the terror of which hurried men from habita- tions to which they were but little attached , to seek ― security and repose under any climate ...
Page 175
... death in his own family , over his children and his servants . But among freemen and heads of families , causes of all sorts seem to have been decided by the Druids : they summoned and dissolved all the public assem- blies ; they alone ...
... death in his own family , over his children and his servants . But among freemen and heads of families , causes of all sorts seem to have been decided by the Druids : they summoned and dissolved all the public assem- blies ; they alone ...
Page 180
... death ascend to that sphere which influences and governs everything below , or that the proper abode of beings at once so illustrious and permanent should be in that part of Nature in which they had always observed the greatest splen ...
... death ascend to that sphere which influences and governs everything below , or that the proper abode of beings at once so illustrious and permanent should be in that part of Nature in which they had always observed the greatest splen ...
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