The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... opinions , but which he afterwards abandoned , when , a little time before his death , his health appeared in some degree to amend , and he hoped that Providence might have spared him to com- plete the larger publick letter , which he ...
... opinions , but which he afterwards abandoned , when , a little time before his death , his health appeared in some degree to amend , and he hoped that Providence might have spared him to com- plete the larger publick letter , which he ...
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... opinions to the satisfaction of a com- mon auditory , than to establish a doubtful truth by solid and conclusive arguments . When men find that something can be said in favour of what , on the very proposal , they have thought utterly ...
... opinions to the satisfaction of a com- mon auditory , than to establish a doubtful truth by solid and conclusive arguments . When men find that something can be said in favour of what , on the very proposal , they have thought utterly ...
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... opinion , that errour , and not truth of any kind , is dangerous ; that ill conclusions can only flow from false pro- positions ; and that , to know whether any propo- sition be true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it ...
... opinion , that errour , and not truth of any kind , is dangerous ; that ill conclusions can only flow from false pro- positions ; and that , to know whether any propo- sition be true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it ...
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... opinion ; but with all that freedom and candour which we owe to truth wherever we find it , or however it may contradict our own notions , or oppose our own interests . There is a most absurd and and audacious method of reasoning avowed ...
... opinion ; but with all that freedom and candour which we owe to truth wherever we find it , or however it may contradict our own notions , or oppose our own interests . There is a most absurd and and audacious method of reasoning avowed ...
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... opinion of institutions where such proceedings are necessary . It is a misfortune , that in no part of the globe , natural liberty and natural religion are to be found pure , and free from the mixture of political adul- terations . Yet ...
... opinion of institutions where such proceedings are necessary . It is a misfortune , that in no part of the globe , natural liberty and natural religion are to be found pure , and free from the mixture of political adul- terations . Yet ...
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