The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... light , and feel such refreshing airs of liberty , as daily raise our ardour for more . The miseries derived to mankind from superstition under the name of religion , and of ecclesiastical tyranny under the name of church government ...
... light , and feel such refreshing airs of liberty , as daily raise our ardour for more . The miseries derived to mankind from superstition under the name of religion , and of ecclesiastical tyranny under the name of church government ...
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... no skill . In looking over any state to form a judgment on it , it presents itself in two lights ; the external , and the internal . The first , that relation which -169 it bears in point of friendship or enmity to it NATURAL SOCIETY . 15.
... no skill . In looking over any state to form a judgment on it , it presents itself in two lights ; the external , and the internal . The first , that relation which -169 it bears in point of friendship or enmity to it NATURAL SOCIETY . 15.
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... light upon that part which coincides with Roman history , and of that part only on the point of time when they re- ceived the great and final stroke which made them no more a nation ; a stroke which is allowed to have cut off little ...
... light upon that part which coincides with Roman history , and of that part only on the point of time when they re- ceived the great and final stroke which made them no more a nation ; a stroke which is allowed to have cut off little ...
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... light of reason , till all ideas of rectitude and jus- tice are utterly erased from his mind . When Alexander had in his fury inhumanly butchered one of his best friends and bravest captains ; on the return of reason he began to ...
... light of reason , till all ideas of rectitude and jus- tice are utterly erased from his mind . When Alexander had in his fury inhumanly butchered one of his best friends and bravest captains ; on the return of reason he began to ...
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... light of the sun ; they are buried in the bowels of the earth ; there they work at a severe and dismal task , without the least prospect of being delivered from it ; they subsist upon the coarsest and worst sort of fare ; they have ...
... light of the sun ; they are buried in the bowels of the earth ; there they work at a severe and dismal task , without the least prospect of being delivered from it ; they subsist upon the coarsest and worst sort of fare ; they have ...
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