The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page 10
... extremely miserable , if the same philosophy which caused the grief , did not at the same time admi- nister the comfort . On considering political societies , their origin , their constitution , and their effects , I have some- times ...
... extremely miserable , if the same philosophy which caused the grief , did not at the same time admi- nister the comfort . On considering political societies , their origin , their constitution , and their effects , I have some- times ...
Page 19
... extremely uncertain ) , opening the scene by a de- struction of at least one million of his species , un- provoked but by his ambition , without any motives but pride , cruelty , and madness , and without any benefit to himself ; ( for ...
... extremely uncertain ) , opening the scene by a de- struction of at least one million of his species , un- provoked but by his ambition , without any motives but pride , cruelty , and madness , and without any benefit to himself ; ( for ...
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... extremely populous , and to supply men for slaughters scarcely credible , if other well - known and well - attested ones had not given them a colour . The first set- tling of the Jews here was attended by an almost entire extirpation of ...
... extremely populous , and to supply men for slaughters scarcely credible , if other well - known and well - attested ones had not given them a colour . The first set- tling of the Jews here was attended by an almost entire extirpation of ...
Page 57
... extremely close . In the second place , the several constituent parts having their distinct rights , and these many of them so necessary to be determined with exactness , are yet so indeterminate in their nature , that it becomes a new ...
... extremely close . In the second place , the several constituent parts having their distinct rights , and these many of them so necessary to be determined with exactness , are yet so indeterminate in their nature , that it becomes a new ...
Page 97
... extremely accurate ; the thing which we understand by it is far from a simple and deter- minate idea in the minds of most men , and it is therefore liable to uncertainty and confusion . I have no great opinion of a definition , the cele ...
... extremely accurate ; the thing which we understand by it is far from a simple and deter- minate idea in the minds of most men , and it is therefore liable to uncertainty and confusion . I have no great opinion of a definition , the cele ...
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