The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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Page 16
... suffered greatly ; and that of this immense num- ber but a very small part could have returned to en- joy the plunder accumulated by the loss of so many of their companions , and the devastation of so consid- erable a part of the world ...
... suffered greatly ; and that of this immense num- ber but a very small part could have returned to en- joy the plunder accumulated by the loss of so many of their companions , and the devastation of so consid- erable a part of the world ...
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... suffered ; what shall we judge of countries more extended , and which have waged wars by far more considerable ? I Instances of this sort compose the uniform of his- tory . But there have been periods when no less than universal ...
... suffered ; what shall we judge of countries more extended , and which have waged wars by far more considerable ? I Instances of this sort compose the uniform of his- tory . But there have been periods when no less than universal ...
Page 38
... suffered to be of little service either to their possessors or to the state . Some of these men , for whose sakes alone we read their history , they banished ; others they impris- oned , and all they treated with various circumstances ...
... suffered to be of little service either to their possessors or to the state . Some of these men , for whose sakes alone we read their history , they banished ; others they impris- oned , and all they treated with various circumstances ...
Page 82
... suffer ourselves to imagine , that their senses present to different men different images of things , this scep- tical proceeding will make every sort of reasoning on every subject vain and frivolous , even that sceptical reasoning ...
... suffer ourselves to imagine , that their senses present to different men different images of things , this scep- tical proceeding will make every sort of reasoning on every subject vain and frivolous , even that sceptical reasoning ...
Page 97
... suffer his taste to be delicate ; and he is in all respects what Ovid says of himself in love , VOL . I. Molle meum levibus cor est violabile telis , Et semper causa est , cur ego semper amem . 7 One of this character can never be a ...
... suffer his taste to be delicate ; and he is in all respects what Ovid says of himself in love , VOL . I. Molle meum levibus cor est violabile telis , Et semper causa est , cur ego semper amem . 7 One of this character can never be a ...
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