The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... scarcely cre- dible . The neighbouring little states teemed for new destruction : the Sabines , the Samnites , the Æqui , the Volci , the Hetrurians , were broken by a series of slaughters which had no interruption , for some hundreds ...
... scarcely cre- dible . The neighbouring little states teemed for new destruction : the Sabines , the Samnites , the Æqui , the Volci , the Hetrurians , were broken by a series of slaughters which had no interruption , for some hundreds ...
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... scarcely credible , if other well - known and well - attested ones had not given them a colour . The first set- tling of the Jews here was attended by an almost entire extirpation of all the former inhabitants . Their own civil wars ...
... scarcely credible , if other well - known and well - attested ones had not given them a colour . The first set- tling of the Jews here was attended by an almost entire extirpation of all the former inhabitants . Their own civil wars ...
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... Scarcely any part of the world is exempted from its power . And in those few places where men enjoy what they call liberty , it is continually in a tottering situation , and makes greater and greater strides to that gulf of despotism ...
... Scarcely any part of the world is exempted from its power . And in those few places where men enjoy what they call liberty , it is continually in a tottering situation , and makes greater and greater strides to that gulf of despotism ...
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... scarcely a rational man in Europe , that would not prefer death to Asiatick despotism . Here then we have the acknowledgement of a great philosopher , that an irregular state of nature is preferable to such a government ; we have the ...
... scarcely a rational man in Europe , that would not prefer death to Asiatick despotism . Here then we have the acknowledgement of a great philosopher , that an irregular state of nature is preferable to such a government ; we have the ...
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... scarcely wish for , a greater mischief , than to have cut off , at one -stroke , a fourth of his people ? Or has the cruelty of that series of sanguine tyrants , the Cæsars , ever presented such a piece of flagrant and extensive ...
... scarcely wish for , a greater mischief , than to have cut off , at one -stroke , a fourth of his people ? Or has the cruelty of that series of sanguine tyrants , the Cæsars , ever presented such a piece of flagrant and extensive ...
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