The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... principle of unaffected humility , which they , who were the most intimately acquainted with his character , best know to have been in his es- timation one of the most important moral duties , never himself made any collection of the ...
... principle of unaffected humility , which they , who were the most intimately acquainted with his character , best know to have been in his es- timation one of the most important moral duties , never himself made any collection of the ...
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... principles which it contained . The Author , therefore , discovering that , with the exception of the introductory letter , he had not in fact kept any clean copy , as he had supposed , correct- ed one of the pamphlets with his own hand ...
... principles which it contained . The Author , therefore , discovering that , with the exception of the introductory letter , he had not in fact kept any clean copy , as he had supposed , correct- ed one of the pamphlets with his own hand ...
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... principle ever to settle on the true point of quiet . It discovers every day some craving want in a body , which really wants but little . It every day invents some new artificial rule to guide that nature which , if left to itself ...
... principle ever to settle on the true point of quiet . It discovers every day some craving want in a body , which really wants but little . It every day invents some new artificial rule to guide that nature which , if left to itself ...
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... principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis : for we have no particulars of Ninus , but that he made im- mense and ...
... principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis : for we have no particulars of Ninus , but that he made im- mense and ...
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... principle . It has been remarked , that there is no prince so bad , whose favourites and ministers are not worse . There is hardly any prince without a favourite , by whom he is governed in as arbitrary a manner as he governs the ...
... principle . It has been remarked , that there is no prince so bad , whose favourites and ministers are not worse . There is hardly any prince without a favourite , by whom he is governed in as arbitrary a manner as he governs the ...
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