The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... political pieces which were written by him between the time of his first becoming con- nected with the Marquis of Rockingham , and his being chosen member for Bristol . In the third are comprehended all his speeches and pamphlets , from ...
... political pieces which were written by him between the time of his first becoming con- nected with the Marquis of Rockingham , and his being chosen member for Bristol . In the third are comprehended all his speeches and pamphlets , from ...
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... political societies , their origin , their constitution , and their effects , I have some- times been in a good deal more than doubt , whe- ther the Creator did ever really intend man for a state of happiness . He has mixed in his cup a ...
... political societies , their origin , their constitution , and their effects , I have some- times been in a good deal more than doubt , whe- ther the Creator did ever really intend man for a state of happiness . He has mixed in his cup a ...
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... political society . And hence the sources of what are usually called states , civil societies , or governments ; into some form of which , more extended or restrained , all mankind have gradually fallen . And since it has so happened ...
... political society . And hence the sources of what are usually called states , civil societies , or governments ; into some form of which , more extended or restrained , all mankind have gradually fallen . And since it has so happened ...
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... political so- ciety is in a hostile shape ; and the only actions to which we have always seen , and still see , all of them intent , are such as tend to the destruction of * Had his Lordship lived to our days , to have seen the noble ...
... political so- ciety is in a hostile shape ; and the only actions to which we have always seen , and still see , all of them intent , are such as tend to the destruction of * Had his Lordship lived to our days , to have seen the noble ...
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... political Doctor , “ to " consider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ' ability to execute military plans . " A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine ...
... political Doctor , “ to " consider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ' ability to execute military plans . " A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine ...
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