The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... attend all wars , and in a quarrel , in which none of the sufferers could have the least rational concern . The The Babylonian , Assyrian , Median , and Persian monarchies must have poured out seas of blood in their formation , and in ...
... attend all wars , and in a quarrel , in which none of the sufferers could have the least rational concern . The The Babylonian , Assyrian , Median , and Persian monarchies must have poured out seas of blood in their formation , and in ...
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... attended by an almost entire extirpation of all the former inhabitants . Their own civil wars , and those with their petty neighbours , consumed vast multitudes almost every year for several centuries ; and the irruptions of the kings ...
... attended by an almost entire extirpation of all the former inhabitants . Their own civil wars , and those with their petty neighbours , consumed vast multitudes almost every year for several centuries ; and the irruptions of the kings ...
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... attend the wasting of kingdoms , and sacking of cities . But I do not write to the vulgar , nor to that which only governs the vulgar , their pas- sions . I go upon a naked and moderate calcula- tion , just enough , without a pedantical ...
... attend the wasting of kingdoms , and sacking of cities . But I do not write to the vulgar , nor to that which only governs the vulgar , their pas- sions . I go upon a naked and moderate calcula- tion , just enough , without a pedantical ...
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... attended with consequences so deplorable . In a state of nature , it had been impossible to find a number of men , sufficient for such slaughters , agreed in the same bloody purpose ; or allowing that they might have come to such an ...
... attended with consequences so deplorable . In a state of nature , it had been impossible to find a number of men , sufficient for such slaughters , agreed in the same bloody purpose ; or allowing that they might have come to such an ...
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... attended by all those horrid disorders , and yet more horrid methods of cure , which are the result of luxury on the one hand , and the weak and ridiculous efforts of human art on the other . The pleasures of such men are scarcely felt ...
... attended by all those horrid disorders , and yet more horrid methods of cure , which are the result of luxury on the one hand , and the weak and ridiculous efforts of human art on the other . The pleasures of such men are scarcely felt ...
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