The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... cause , and to support paradoxical opinions to the satisfaction of a com- mon auditory , than to establish a doubtful truth by solid and conclusive arguments . When men find that something can be said in favour of what , on the very ...
... cause , and to support paradoxical opinions to the satisfaction of a com- mon auditory , than to establish a doubtful truth by solid and conclusive arguments . When men find that something can be said in favour of what , on the very ...
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... cause of all this superstitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are otherwise en- lightened . Civil government borrows a strength from ec- clesiastical ...
... cause of all this superstitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are otherwise en- lightened . Civil government borrows a strength from ec- clesiastical ...
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... cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please ; but owning this , I still insist in charging it to political regu- lations , that these broils are so frequent , so cruel , and attended with consequences so deplorable ...
... cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please ; but owning this , I still insist in charging it to political regu- lations , that these broils are so frequent , so cruel , and attended with consequences so deplorable ...
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... cause terrour and hatred ; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery , cruelty , fraud and tyranny ; and those writers , who D VOL . I. have have faithfully unveiled the mysteries of state- freemasonry , have NATURAL ...
... cause terrour and hatred ; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery , cruelty , fraud and tyranny ; and those writers , who D VOL . I. have have faithfully unveiled the mysteries of state- freemasonry , have NATURAL ...
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... cause ; for it is an honest zeal , and in a good cause . I have defended natural religion against a confederacy of atheists and divines . I now plead for natural society against politicians , and for natural reason against all three ...
... cause ; for it is an honest zeal , and in a good cause . I have defended natural religion against a confederacy of atheists and divines . I now plead for natural society against politicians , and for natural reason against all three ...
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