The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... allowed my prin- ciple , but you dreaded the consequences ; you thought , that having once entered upon these rea- sonings , we might be carried insensibly and irre- sistibly farther than at first we could either have imagined or wished ...
... allowed my prin- ciple , but you dreaded the consequences ; you thought , that having once entered upon these rea- sonings , we might be carried insensibly and irre- sistibly farther than at first we could either have imagined or wished ...
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... allowed to have cut off little less than two millions of that people . I say nothing of the loppings made from that stock whilst it stood ; nor from the suckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if , in this inconsiderable ...
... allowed to have cut off little less than two millions of that people . I say nothing of the loppings made from that stock whilst it stood ; nor from the suckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if , in this inconsiderable ...
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... allowed sufficient freedom of thought , provided he knows how to chuse his subject properly . You may criticise freely upon the Chinese constitution , and observe with as much severity as you please upon the absurd tricks , or ...
... allowed sufficient freedom of thought , provided he knows how to chuse his subject properly . You may criticise freely upon the Chinese constitution , and observe with as much severity as you please upon the absurd tricks , or ...
Page 63
... allowed or forbidden , what things were in property , and what common . In this uncertainty , ( uncertain even to the professors , an Egyptian darkness to the rest of mankind ) the contending parties felt themselves more effectually ...
... allowed or forbidden , what things were in property , and what common . In this uncertainty , ( uncertain even to the professors , an Egyptian darkness to the rest of mankind ) the contending parties felt themselves more effectually ...
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... allowed to fight . And if I attempt to avenge myself , the whole force of that society is ready to complete my ruin . A good parson once said , that where mystery begins , religion ends . Cannot I say , as truly at least , of human laws ...
... allowed to fight . And if I attempt to avenge myself , the whole force of that society is ready to complete my ruin . A good parson once said , that where mystery begins , religion ends . Cannot I say , as truly at least , of human laws ...
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