The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page xix
... original state ; and several heroes of the Revolution , who are there celebrated , having in the interval passed off the publick stage , a greater liberty of insertion , and al- teration , than his friends on consideration have thought ...
... original state ; and several heroes of the Revolution , who are there celebrated , having in the interval passed off the publick stage , a greater liberty of insertion , and al- teration , than his friends on consideration have thought ...
Page xxvi
... original authors . Several mistakes in printing , of one word for another , by which the sense was either perverted or obscured , are now rectified . Two or three small insertions have also been made from a quarto copy corrected by Mr ...
... original authors . Several mistakes in printing , of one word for another , by which the sense was either perverted or obscured , are now rectified . Two or three small insertions have also been made from a quarto copy corrected by Mr ...
Page 11
... original children of the earth lived with their brethren of the other kinds in much equality . Their diet must have been confined almost wholly to the vegetable kind ; and the same tree , which in its flourishing state produced them ...
... original children of the earth lived with their brethren of the other kinds in much equality . Their diet must have been confined almost wholly to the vegetable kind ; and the same tree , which in its flourishing state produced them ...
Page 73
... originals I could copy such pictures . Happy are they who know enough of them to know the little value of the possessors of such things , and of all that they possess ; and happy they who have been snatched from that post of danger ...
... originals I could copy such pictures . Happy are they who know enough of them to know the little value of the possessors of such things , and of all that they possess ; and happy they who have been snatched from that post of danger ...
Page 104
... original natural causes of pleasure , to enable them to bring all things offered to their senses to that standard , and to regulate their feel- ings and opinions by it . Suppose one who had so vitiated his palate as to take more ...
... original natural causes of pleasure , to enable them to bring all things offered to their senses to that standard , and to regulate their feel- ings and opinions by it . Suppose one who had so vitiated his palate as to take more ...
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