The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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... slavery ; and much is it to be feared that we shall perpetually relapse , whilst the real productive cause of all ... slaves ; and even those of a rank of understanding superior , will now and then involuntarily feel its influence . It ...
... slavery ; and much is it to be feared that we shall perpetually relapse , whilst the real productive cause of all ... slaves ; and even those of a rank of understanding superior , will now and then involuntarily feel its influence . It ...
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... slavery , is requisite to support these societies ; the interest , the ambition , the malice , or the revenge , nay , even the whim and caprice of one ruling man among them , is enough to arm all the rest , without any private views of ...
... slavery , is requisite to support these societies ; the interest , the ambition , the malice , or the revenge , nay , even the whim and caprice of one ruling man among them , is enough to arm all the rest , without any private views of ...
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... slavery of his subjects . Thus encouraged both by passion and interest to trample on the public welfare , and by his station placed above both shame and fear , he pro- ceeds to the most horrid and shocking outrages upon mankind . Their ...
... slavery of his subjects . Thus encouraged both by passion and interest to trample on the public welfare , and by his station placed above both shame and fear , he pro- ceeds to the most horrid and shocking outrages upon mankind . Their ...
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... slavery . The day , says Homer , which makes a man a slave , takes away half his worth ; and , in fact , he loses every impulse ' to action , but that low and base one of fear . In this kind of government human nature is not only abused ...
... slavery . The day , says Homer , which makes a man a slave , takes away half his worth ; and , in fact , he loses every impulse ' to action , but that low and base one of fear . In this kind of government human nature is not only abused ...
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... slaves , when twenty , indepen- dent of them , govern , as when but one domineers . The tyranny is even more felt , as every individual of the nobles has the haughtiness of a sultan ; the peo- ple are more miserable , as they seem on ...
... slaves , when twenty , indepen- dent of them , govern , as when but one domineers . The tyranny is even more felt , as every individual of the nobles has the haughtiness of a sultan ; the peo- ple are more miserable , as they seem on ...
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