The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 10J. C. Nimmo, 1887 - Great Britain |
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Page 151
... follow , and trust we shall always follow , that great emblem of antiquity , in which the person who held out to the end of a long line of labors found the reward of all the eleven in the twelfth . Our labor , therefore , will be our ...
... follow , and trust we shall always follow , that great emblem of antiquity , in which the person who held out to the end of a long line of labors found the reward of all the eleven in the twelfth . Our labor , therefore , will be our ...
Page 163
... follow in one train , -when these vices , which gender and spawn in dirt , and are nursed in dunghills , come and pollute with their slime that throne which ought to be a seat of dignity and purity , the evil is much greater ; it may ...
... follow in one train , -when these vices , which gender and spawn in dirt , and are nursed in dunghills , come and pollute with their slime that throne which ought to be a seat of dignity and purity , the evil is much greater ; it may ...
Page 382
... follow them . " Observe , that he says , not facts stated , but facts implied in the report . And of what was this to be a report ? Of things which the Directors declared they did not understand . And then the in- ferences which are to ...
... follow them . " Observe , that he says , not facts stated , but facts implied in the report . And of what was this to be a report ? Of things which the Directors declared they did not understand . And then the in- ferences which are to ...
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