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Edmund Burke. THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE EDMUND BURKE . THIRD EDITION . VOL . I. H ROY UNG FOY 407 ON 1. Il . Cooley . . BOSTON : LITTLE , BROWN , AND COMPANY . 1869 . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER . * THE HE late Mr.
Edmund Burke. THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE EDMUND BURKE . THIRD EDITION . VOL . I. H ROY UNG FOY 407 ON 1. Il . Cooley . . BOSTON : LITTLE , BROWN , AND COMPANY . 1869 . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER . * THE HE late Mr.
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Edmund Burke. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER . * THE HE late Mr. Burke , from a 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 ...
Edmund Burke. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER . * THE HE late Mr. Burke , from a 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 ...
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... reader , it is trusted , will find this ob- ject , too much disregarded in modern books , has here been kept in view throughout . The quotations which are interspersed through the works of Mr Burke , and which were frequently made by ...
... reader , it is trusted , will find this ob- ject , too much disregarded in modern books , has here been kept in view throughout . The quotations which are interspersed through the works of Mr Burke , and which were frequently made by ...
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... reader against imagining that I in- tended a full dissertation on the Sublime and Beau- tiful . My inquiry went no farther than to the origin of these ideas . If the qualities which I have ranged under the head of the Sublime be all ...
... reader against imagining that I in- tended a full dissertation on the Sublime and Beau- tiful . My inquiry went no farther than to the origin of these ideas . If the qualities which I have ranged under the head of the Sublime be all ...
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... reader himself in the track of invention , and to di- rect him into those paths in which the author has made his own discoveries , if he should be so happy as to have made any that are valuable . But to cut off all pretence for ...
... reader himself in the track of invention , and to di- rect him into those paths in which the author has made his own discoveries , if he should be so happy as to have made any that are valuable . But to cut off all pretence for ...
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