The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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... VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY : OR , A VIEW OF THE MISERIES AND EVILS ARISING TO MANKIND FROM EVERY SPECIES OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETY . IN A LETTER TO LORD ** BY A LATE NOBLE WRITER . 1756 . 1 B PREFACE . EFORE the philosophical works of Lord.
... VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY : OR , A VIEW OF THE MISERIES AND EVILS ARISING TO MANKIND FROM EVERY SPECIES OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETY . IN A LETTER TO LORD ** BY A LATE NOBLE WRITER . 1756 . 1 B PREFACE . EFORE the philosophical works of Lord.
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... species , unprovoked but by his ambition , without any motives but pride , cruelty , and madness , and without any benefit to himself ( for Justin expressly tells us he did not maintain his conquests ) , but solely to make so many ...
... species , unprovoked but by his ambition , without any motives but pride , cruelty , and madness , and without any benefit to himself ( for Justin expressly tells us he did not maintain his conquests ) , but solely to make so many ...
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... species caused in both , really astonishes beyond expression , when it is nakedly considered , and those matters which are apt to divert our atten- tion from it , the characters , actions , and designs of the persons concerned , are not ...
... species caused in both , really astonishes beyond expression , when it is nakedly considered , and those matters which are apt to divert our atten- tion from it , the characters , actions , and designs of the persons concerned , are not ...
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... species . I shall draw to a conclusion of this part , by making a gen- eral calculation of the whole . I think I have actually mentioned above thirty - six millions . I have not par- ticularized any more . I don't pretend to exactness ...
... species . I shall draw to a conclusion of this part , by making a gen- eral calculation of the whole . I think I have actually mentioned above thirty - six millions . I have not par- ticularized any more . I don't pretend to exactness ...
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... species . To give the fairest play to every side of the question , I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature , which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what sit- uation you please ; but owning this ...
... species . To give the fairest play to every side of the question , I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature , which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what sit- uation you please ; but owning this ...
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