The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page 7
... clear and demon- strative to every individual ? The editor knows that the subject of this letter is not so fully handled as obviously it might ; it was not his design to say all that could possibly be said . It had been inexcusable to ...
... clear and demon- strative to every individual ? The editor knows that the subject of this letter is not so fully handled as obviously it might ; it was not his design to say all that could possibly be said . It had been inexcusable to ...
Page 14
... clearly and usefully exposed . We begin to think and to act from reason and from nature alone . This is true of several , but by far the majority is still in the same old state of blindness and slavery ; and much is it to be feared that ...
... clearly and usefully exposed . We begin to think and to act from reason and from nature alone . This is true of several , but by far the majority is still in the same old state of blindness and slavery ; and much is it to be feared that ...
Page 15
... clearly their excellencies must appear . They come purified from the fire . My business is not with them . Having entered a protest against all objections from these quarters , I may the more freely enquire , from his- tory and ...
... clearly their excellencies must appear . They come purified from the fire . My business is not with them . Having entered a protest against all objections from these quarters , I may the more freely enquire , from his- tory and ...
Page 17
... clear , there were conquerors , and con- quests in those days ; and , consequently , all that devastation by which they are formed , and all that oppression by which they are maintained . We know little of Sesostris , but that he led ...
... clear , there were conquerors , and con- quests in those days ; and , consequently , all that devastation by which they are formed , and all that oppression by which they are maintained . We know little of Sesostris , but that he led ...
Page 73
... clear and acknowledged , that if it did not make a necessary part of my subject , I should pass it by entirely . And this has hindered me from drawing at full length , and in the most striking colours , this shocking picture of the ...
... clear and acknowledged , that if it did not make a necessary part of my subject , I should pass it by entirely . And this has hindered me from drawing at full length , and in the most striking colours , this shocking picture of the ...
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