The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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... mankind . " At the paragraph commencing with the words , " In turning our view from the lower to the higher classes , " & c . In the first half of the paragraph commencing , " If , then , the real state of this nation , " & c . found ...
... mankind . " At the paragraph commencing with the words , " In turning our view from the lower to the higher classes , " & c . In the first half of the paragraph commencing , " If , then , the real state of this nation , " & c . found ...
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... OF NATURAL SOCIETY : OR , A VIEW OF THE MISERIES AND EVILS ARISING TO MANKIND FROM EVERY SPECIES OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETY . IN A LETTER TO LORD ** BY A LATE NOBLE WRITER . 1756 . 1 B PREFACE . EFORE the philosophical works of Lord.
... OF NATURAL SOCIETY : OR , A VIEW OF THE MISERIES AND EVILS ARISING TO MANKIND FROM EVERY SPECIES OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETY . IN A LETTER TO LORD ** BY A LATE NOBLE WRITER . 1756 . 1 B PREFACE . EFORE the philosophical works of Lord.
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... mankind delineated ; in short , all who consider such things as philosophy , and re- quire some of them at least in every philosophical work , all these were certainly disappointed ; they found the landmarks of science precisely in ...
... mankind delineated ; in short , all who consider such things as philosophy , and re- quire some of them at least in every philosophical work , all these were certainly disappointed ; they found the landmarks of science precisely in ...
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... mankind than his success ? I cannot conceive how this sort of writers propose to compass the designs they pretend to have in view , by the instruments which they employ . Do they pretend to exalt the mind of man , by proving him no ...
... mankind than his success ? I cannot conceive how this sort of writers propose to compass the designs they pretend to have in view , by the instruments which they employ . Do they pretend to exalt the mind of man , by proving him no ...
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Edmund Burke. always accompanies an attack , and the unfortunate propensity which mankind have to the finding and exaggerating faults . The editor is satisfied that a mind which has no restraint from a sense of its own weakness , of its ...
Edmund Burke. always accompanies an attack , and the unfortunate propensity which mankind have to the finding and exaggerating faults . The editor is satisfied that a mind which has no restraint from a sense of its own weakness , of its ...
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