The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... the publick eye . " In the mean time a large impression , amounting , it is believed , to three thousand copies , had been dispersed over the country . To recall these was impossible ; to have ex- pected I To ADVERTISEMENT . xi.
... the publick eye . " In the mean time a large impression , amounting , it is believed , to three thousand copies , had been dispersed over the country . To recall these was impossible ; to have ex- pected I To ADVERTISEMENT . xi.
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... mean to object to the piety , truth , and perfection of our most excellent church . Both I am sensible have their foundations on a rock . No discovery of truth can prejudice them . On the contrary , the more closely the origin of ...
... mean to object to the piety , truth , and perfection of our most excellent church . Both I am sensible have their foundations on a rock . No discovery of truth can prejudice them . On the contrary , the more closely the origin of ...
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... means every sort of state , however constituted . " He ought , ” says this great political Doctor , “ to " consider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ' ability to execute military ...
... means every sort of state , however constituted . " He ought , ” says this great political Doctor , “ to " consider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ' ability to execute military ...
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... mean those called the Punick wars , could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very small part , of the havock caused by the Roman ambition . The war with ...
... mean those called the Punick wars , could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very small part , of the havock caused by the Roman ambition . The war with ...
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... by somebody else ; the numbers he has been the means of destroying have been reckoned at 1,200,000 . But to give your Lordship an idea that may serve as a standard , by by which to measure , in some degree , the NATURAL SOCIETY . 25.
... by somebody else ; the numbers he has been the means of destroying have been reckoned at 1,200,000 . But to give your Lordship an idea that may serve as a standard , by by which to measure , in some degree , the NATURAL SOCIETY . 25.
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