The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... Mankind from every Species of Ar- tificial Society A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beauti- ful ; with an Introductory Discourse concerning Taste PAGE V xxiii 81 1 1 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER ...
... Mankind from every Species of Ar- tificial Society A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beauti- ful ; with an Introductory Discourse concerning Taste PAGE V xxiii 81 1 1 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER ...
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... MANKIND FROM EVERY SPECIES OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETY . IN A LETTER TO LORD * ** BY A LATE NOBLE WRITER . 1756 . VOL . I. B PREFACE . BE EFORE the philosophical works of Lord Bo- A Vindication of Natural Society: or, View of the Miseries and ...
... MANKIND FROM EVERY SPECIES OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETY . IN A LETTER TO LORD * ** BY A LATE NOBLE WRITER . 1756 . VOL . I. B PREFACE . BE EFORE the philosophical works of Lord Bo- A Vindication of Natural Society: or, View of the Miseries and ...
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... mankind delineated ; in short , all who consider such things as philosophy , and require some of them at least in every philosophical work , all these were certainly disappointed ; they found the land- marks of science precisely in ...
... mankind delineated ; in short , all who consider such things as philosophy , and require some of them at least in every philosophical work , all these were certainly disappointed ; they found the land- marks of science precisely in ...
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... mankind have to the finding and exaggerating faults . The editor is satisfied that a mind which has no restraint from a sense of its own weakness , of its subordinate rank in the creation , and of the extreme danger of let- ting the ...
... mankind have to the finding and exaggerating faults . The editor is satisfied that a mind which has no restraint from a sense of its own weakness , of its subordinate rank in the creation , and of the extreme danger of let- ting the ...
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... mankind has used from the beginning of the world to this day , in order to al- leviate , or cure them , has only served to introduce new mischiefs , or to aggravate and inflame the old . Besides this , the mind of man itself is too ...
... mankind has used from the beginning of the world to this day , in order to al- leviate , or cure them , has only served to introduce new mischiefs , or to aggravate and inflame the old . Besides this , the mind of man itself is too ...
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