The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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... perhaps these will not be looked upon as faults by the admirers of Lord Bolingbroke ; who will , the editor is afraid , observe much more of his lordship's character in such particulars of the follow- ing letter , than they are likely ...
... perhaps these will not be looked upon as faults by the admirers of Lord Bolingbroke ; who will , the editor is afraid , observe much more of his lordship's character in such particulars of the follow- ing letter , than they are likely ...
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... perhaps has designed us for a state of imperfection , has imposed ; how far our physical skill has cured our constitu- tional disorders ; and whether it may not have intro- duced new ones , curable perhaps by no skill . In looking over ...
... perhaps has designed us for a state of imperfection , has imposed ; how far our physical skill has cured our constitu- tional disorders ; and whether it may not have intro- duced new ones , curable perhaps by no skill . In looking over ...
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... perhaps of any other nation in the world ; though the histories of all nations are made up of similar matter . I once more excuse myself in point of exactness for want of books . But I shall estimate the slaughters in this island but at ...
... perhaps of any other nation in the world ; though the histories of all nations are made up of similar matter . I once more excuse myself in point of exactness for want of books . But I shall estimate the slaughters in this island but at ...
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... perhaps spoke of the five - hundredth part ; I am sure I have not of what is actually ascertained in history ; but how much of these butcheries are only expressed in generals , what part of time history has never reached , and what vast ...
... perhaps spoke of the five - hundredth part ; I am sure I have not of what is actually ascertained in history ; but how much of these butcheries are only expressed in generals , what part of time history has never reached , and what vast ...
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... perhaps , their former condition did not deserve that name altogether as well . All other re- publics were of the same character . Florence was a transcript of Athens . And the modern republics , as they approach more or less to the ...
... perhaps , their former condition did not deserve that name altogether as well . All other re- publics were of the same character . Florence was a transcript of Athens . And the modern republics , as they approach more or less to the ...
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