The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... Laws against Irish Catholics ; which was probably inserted where it stands , from its relation to the subject of the Letter addressed by him , at a later period , to Sir Hercules Langrishe . With the same exception , too , strict regard ...
... Laws against Irish Catholics ; which was probably inserted where it stands , from its relation to the subject of the Letter addressed by him , at a later period , to Sir Hercules Langrishe . With the same exception , too , strict regard ...
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... laws ; and then , it raises imaginary terrours to support a belief in the beings , and an obedience to the laws.- Many things have been said , and very well un- doubtedly , on the subjection in which we should preserve our bodies to ...
... laws ; and then , it raises imaginary terrours to support a belief in the beings , and an obedience to the laws.- Many things have been said , and very well un- doubtedly , on the subjection in which we should preserve our bodies to ...
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... laws . This is political society . And hence the sources of what are usually called states , civil societies , or governments ; into some form of which , more extended or restrained , all mankind have gradually fallen . And since it has ...
... laws . This is political society . And hence the sources of what are usually called states , civil societies , or governments ; into some form of which , more extended or restrained , all mankind have gradually fallen . And since it has ...
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... laws receive a sanction from artificial revelations . The ideas of religion and government are closely connected ; and whilst we receive government as a thing necessary , or even useful to our well - being , we shall in spite of us draw ...
... laws receive a sanction from artificial revelations . The ideas of religion and government are closely connected ; and whilst we receive government as a thing necessary , or even useful to our well - being , we shall in spite of us draw ...
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... 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 year by men of men , than has ...
... 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 year by men of men , than has ...
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