The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... animals , who still follow her laws , and even of those to whom she has given dispositions more fierce , and arms more terrible than ever she intended we should use . It is an incontestable truth , that there is more havock made in one ...
... animals , who still follow her laws , and even of those to whom she has given dispositions more fierce , and arms more terrible than ever she intended we should use . It is an incontestable truth , that there is more havock made in one ...
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... animals in their greatest terrours , or furies , has ever done , or ever could do ! These evils are not accidental . Whoever will take the pains to consider the nature of society will find that they result directly from its constitution ...
... animals in their greatest terrours , or furies , has ever done , or ever could do ! These evils are not accidental . Whoever will take the pains to consider the nature of society will find that they result directly from its constitution ...
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... Animals XXI . Smell and Taste . Bitters and Stenches 198 XXII . Feeling . Pain 200 PART III . I. Of Beauty II . Proportion not the cause of Beauty in Vegetables III . Proportion not the cause of Beauty in Animals IV . Proportion not ...
... Animals XXI . Smell and Taste . Bitters and Stenches 198 XXII . Feeling . Pain 200 PART III . I. Of Beauty II . Proportion not the cause of Beauty in Vegetables III . Proportion not the cause of Beauty in Animals IV . Proportion not ...
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... animals , and which we may in some sort be said to have even with the inanimate world . The passions belonging to the preservation of the individual turn wholly on pain and danger : those which belong to generation have their origin in ...
... animals , and which we may in some sort be said to have even with the inanimate world . The passions belonging to the preservation of the individual turn wholly on pain and danger : those which belong to generation have their origin in ...
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... animals ; and as he is not designed like them to live at large , it is fit that he should have something to create a prefer- ence , and fix his choice ; and this in general should be some sensible quality ; as no other can so quickly ...
... animals ; and as he is not designed like them to live at large , it is fit that he should have something to create a prefer- ence , and fix his choice ; and this in general should be some sensible quality ; as no other can so quickly ...
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