The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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... always in the flight , and great carnage did in those times and countries ever attend the first rage of conquest . It will , therefore , be very reason able to allow on their account as much as , 16 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... always in the flight , and great carnage did in those times and countries ever attend the first rage of conquest . It will , therefore , be very reason able to allow on their account as much as , 16 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
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... attend all wars , and in a quarrel , in which none of the sufferers could have the least rational concern . The Babylonian , Assyrian , Median , and Persian monarchies must have poured out seas of blood in their formation , and in their ...
... attend all wars , and in a quarrel , in which none of the sufferers could have the least rational concern . The Babylonian , Assyrian , Median , and Persian monarchies must have poured out seas of blood in their formation , and in their ...
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... of the Jews here was attended by an almost entire extirpation of all the former inhabitants . Their own civil wars , and those with their petty neighbors , consumed vast mul- titudes 22 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... of the Jews here was attended by an almost entire extirpation of all the former inhabitants . Their own civil wars , and those with their petty neighbors , consumed vast mul- titudes 22 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
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... attend the wasting of kingdoms , and sacking of cities . But I do not write to the vulgar , nor to that which only governs the vulgar , their pas- sions . I go upon a naked and moderate calculation , just enough , without a pedantical ...
... attend the wasting of kingdoms , and sacking of cities . But I do not write to the vulgar , nor to that which only governs the vulgar , their pas- sions . I go upon a naked and moderate calculation , just enough , without a pedantical ...
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... attended with conse- quences so deplorable . In a state of nature , it had been impossible to find a number of men , sufficient for such slaughters , agreed in the same bloody purpose ; or allowing that they might have come to such an ...
... attended with conse- quences so deplorable . In a state of nature , it had been impossible to find a number of men , sufficient for such slaughters , agreed in the same bloody purpose ; or allowing that they might have come to such an ...
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