The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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... political pieces which were written by him between the time of his first becoming connected with the Marquis of Rock- ingham and his being chosen member for Bristol . In the third are comprehended all his speeches and pamphlets from his ...
... political pieces which were written by him between the time of his first becoming connected with the Marquis of Rock- ingham and his being chosen member for Bristol . In the third are comprehended all his speeches and pamphlets from his ...
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... political societies , their origin , their constitution , and their effects , I have sometimes been in a good deal more than doubt , whether the Creator did ever really intend man for a state of happiness . He has mixed in his cup a ...
... political societies , their origin , their constitution , and their effects , I have sometimes been in a good deal more than doubt , whether the Creator did ever really intend man for a state of happiness . He has mixed in his cup a ...
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... political society . And hence the sources of what are usually called states , civil societies , or gov- ernments ; into some form of which , more extended or restrained , all mankind have gradually fallen . And since it has so happened ...
... political society . And hence the sources of what are usually called states , civil societies , or gov- ernments ; into some form of which , more extended or restrained , all mankind have gradually fallen . And since it has so happened ...
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... political doc- tor , " to consider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . " A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes . imagine ...
... political doc- tor , " to consider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . " A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes . imagine ...
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... political society . I charge the whole of these effects on politi- . cal society . I avow the charge , and I shall presently make it good to your lordship's satisfaction . The numbers I particularized are about thirty - six millions ...
... political society . I charge the whole of these effects on politi- . cal society . I avow the charge , and I shall presently make it good to your lordship's satisfaction . The numbers I particularized are about thirty - six millions ...
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