The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 6J. C. Nimmo, 1887 - Great Britain |
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... sure that the best way of discussing any subject , except those that concern the abstracted sciences , is not somewhat in the way of dialogue . To this mode , however , there are two objections : the first , that it happens , as in the ...
... sure that the best way of discussing any subject , except those that concern the abstracted sciences , is not somewhat in the way of dialogue . To this mode , however , there are two objections : the first , that it happens , as in the ...
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... sure , she is ready to perish with repletion ; she has a boulimia , and hardly has bolted down one state than she calls for two or three more . There is a good deal of wit in all this ; but it seems to me ( with all respect to the ...
... sure , she is ready to perish with repletion ; she has a boulimia , and hardly has bolted down one state than she calls for two or three more . There is a good deal of wit in all this ; but it seems to me ( with all respect to the ...
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... happened in the week after the publication of his hebdomadal system . I am not sure it was not in the very week one of the most violent and danger- ous seditions broke out that we have seen in several 32 LETTERS ON A REGICIDE PEACE .
... happened in the week after the publication of his hebdomadal system . I am not sure it was not in the very week one of the most violent and danger- ous seditions broke out that we have seen in several 32 LETTERS ON A REGICIDE PEACE .
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... sure , were such as I should be proud indeed to be able to compare myself with , in knowledge , in integrity , and in ev- ery other virtue . My feeble nature might shrink , though theirs did not , from the proof ; but my rea- son and my ...
... sure , were such as I should be proud indeed to be able to compare myself with , in knowledge , in integrity , and in ev- ery other virtue . My feeble nature might shrink , though theirs did not , from the proof ; but my rea- son and my ...
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... sure for an hour ; nor has their power a greater stability . True . They are convinced of it ; and accordingly the wretches have done all they can to preserve their lives , and to se- cure their power ; but not one step have they taken ...
... sure for an hour ; nor has their power a greater stability . True . They are convinced of it ; and accordingly the wretches have done all they can to preserve their lives , and to se- cure their power ; but not one step have they taken ...
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