The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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... principle of unaffect- ed humility , which they who were the most in- timately acquainted with his character best know to have been in his estimation one of the most impor- tant moral duties , never himself made any collection of the ...
... principle of unaffect- ed humility , which they who were the most in- timately acquainted with his character best know to have been in his estimation one of the most impor- tant moral duties , never himself made any collection of the ...
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... principle , but you dreaded the consequences ; you thought , that having once entered upon these reasonings , we might be car- ried insensibly and irresistibly farther than at first we could either have imagined or wished . But for my ...
... principle , but you dreaded the consequences ; you thought , that having once entered upon these reasonings , we might be car- ried insensibly and irresistibly farther than at first we could either have imagined or wished . But for my ...
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... principle ever to settle on the true point of quiet . It discovers every day some craving want in a body , which really wants but lit- tle . It every day invents some new artificial rule to guide that nature which , if left to itself ...
... principle ever to settle on the true point of quiet . It discovers every day some craving want in a body , which really wants but lit- tle . It every day invents some new artificial rule to guide that nature which , if left to itself ...
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... principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis ; for we have no particulars of Ninus , but that he made immense and rapid ...
... principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis ; for we have no particulars of Ninus , but that he made immense and rapid ...
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... principle . It has been remarked , that there is no prince so bad , whose favorites and ministers are not worse . There is hardly any prince without a favor- ite , by whom he is governed in as arbitrary a manner as he governs the ...
... principle . It has been remarked , that there is no prince so bad , whose favorites and ministers are not worse . There is hardly any prince without a favor- ite , by whom he is governed in as arbitrary a manner as he governs the ...
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