The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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... equal in their respective bulk , has , at the same time , been fortunately found to produce a more methodical arrangement of the whole . The first and second volumes , as before , severally contain those literary and philosophical works ...
... equal in their respective bulk , has , at the same time , been fortunately found to produce a more methodical arrangement of the whole . The first and second volumes , as before , severally contain those literary and philosophical works ...
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... was to show that , without the exertion of any considerable forces , the same engines which were employed for the destruction of religion , might be employed with equal success for the subversion of government 4 PREFACE .
... was to show that , without the exertion of any considerable forces , the same engines which were employed for the destruction of religion , might be employed with equal success for the subversion of government 4 PREFACE .
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Edmund Burke. be employed with equal success for the subversion of government ; and that specious arguments might be used against those things which they , who doubt of everything else , will never permit to be questioned . It is an ...
Edmund Burke. be employed with equal success for the subversion of government ; and that specious arguments might be used against those things which they , who doubt of everything else , will never permit to be questioned . It is an ...
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... which was the seat of war must have been an equal sufferer . But I am content to detract from this , and to suppose that the Indians lost only VOL . I. 2 half so much , and then the account stands thus A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 17.
... which was the seat of war must have been an equal sufferer . But I am content to detract from this , and to suppose that the Indians lost only VOL . I. 2 half so much , and then the account stands thus A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 17.
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... equal fury . The butcheries of Julius Cæsar alone are calculated by somebody else ; the numbers he has been the means of destroying have been reckoned at 1,200,000 . But to give your lordship an idea that may serve as a standard , by ...
... equal fury . The butcheries of Julius Cæsar alone are calculated by somebody else ; the numbers he has been the means of destroying have been reckoned at 1,200,000 . But to give your lordship an idea that may serve as a standard , by ...
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