The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... persons who call themselves the friends or admirers of the late Edmund Burke , will have the goodness to transmit , without delay , any notices of that , or of any other kind , which may happen to be in their possession , or within ...
... persons who call themselves the friends or admirers of the late Edmund Burke , will have the goodness to transmit , without delay , any notices of that , or of any other kind , which may happen to be in their possession , or within ...
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... persons have thought that the advantages of the state of nature ought to have been more fully displayed . This had undoubtedly been a very ample subject for declamation ; but they do not consider the character of the piece . The writers ...
... persons have thought that the advantages of the state of nature ought to have been more fully displayed . This had undoubtedly been a very ample subject for declamation ; but they do not consider the character of the piece . The writers ...
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... persons to form one family ; he therefore judged that he would find his account proportionably in an union of many families into one body politick . And as nature has formed no bond of union to hold them together , he supplied this ...
... persons to form one family ; he therefore judged that he would find his account proportionably in an union of many families into one body politick . And as nature has formed no bond of union to hold them together , he supplied this ...
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... persons concerned , are not taken into the account . These wars , I 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 ...
... persons concerned , are not taken into the account . These wars , I 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 ...
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... person finds , that , let the want , misery , and indigence of his subjects be what they will , he can yet possess abundantly of every thing to gratify his most insatiable wishes . He does more . He finds that these gratifications ...
... person finds , that , let the want , misery , and indigence of his subjects be what they will , he can yet possess abundantly of every thing to gratify his most insatiable wishes . He does more . He finds that these gratifications ...
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