The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... mere act and " intention of publication . I do not retract any one of the sentiments contained in that " Memorial , which was and is my justification , " addressed to the friends , for whose use alone I intended it . Had I designed it ...
... mere act and " intention of publication . I do not retract any one of the sentiments contained in that " Memorial , which was and is my justification , " addressed to the friends , for whose use alone I intended it . Had I designed it ...
Page 10
... mere surface of things ; and which would undoubtedly make the lives of all thinking men extremely miserable , if the same philosophy which caused the grief , did not at the same time admi- nister the comfort . On considering political ...
... mere surface of things ; and which would undoubtedly make the lives of all thinking men extremely miserable , if the same philosophy which caused the grief , did not at the same time admi- nister the comfort . On considering political ...
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... mere nature would have carried us , we may judge by the example of those animals , who still follow her laws , and even of those to whom she has given dispositions more fierce , and arms more terrible than ever she intended we should ...
... mere nature would have carried us , we may judge by the example of those animals , who still follow her laws , and even of those to whom she has given dispositions more fierce , and arms more terrible than ever she intended we should ...
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... merely by the will of the Supreme , and all that are subjected to them directed in the same man- ner , merely by the occasional will of the magis- trate . This form , as it is the most simple , so it is infinitely the most general ...
... merely by the will of the Supreme , and all that are subjected to them directed in the same man- ner , merely by the occasional will of the magis- trate . This form , as it is the most simple , so it is infinitely the most general ...
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... mere herd of cattle ; and really in a little time become no better ; all prin- ciple of honest pride , all sense of the dignity of their nature , is lost in their slavery . The day , says Homer , which makes a man a slave , takes away ...
... mere herd of cattle ; and really in a little time become no better ; all prin- ciple of honest pride , all sense of the dignity of their nature , is lost in their slavery . The day , says Homer , which makes a man a slave , takes away ...
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