The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page 52
... shewn them , however they may differ in name , or in some slight circumstances , to be all alike in effect : in effect , to be all tyrannies . But suppose we were inclined to make the most ample conces- sions ; let us concede Athens ...
... shewn them , however they may differ in name , or in some slight circumstances , to be all alike in effect : in effect , to be all tyrannies . But suppose we were inclined to make the most ample conces- sions ; let us concede Athens ...
Page 54
... shewn in this cause ; for it is an honest zeal , and in a good cause . I have defended natural religion against a confederacy of atheists and divines . I now plead for natural society against politicians , and for natural reason against ...
... shewn in this cause ; for it is an honest zeal , and in a good cause . I have defended natural religion against a confederacy of atheists and divines . I now plead for natural society against politicians , and for natural reason against ...
Page 76
... shewn , that political so- ciety , on a moderate calculation , has been the means of murdering several times the number of inhabitants now upon the earth , during its short existence , not upwards of four thousand years in any any ...
... shewn , that political so- ciety , on a moderate calculation , has been the means of murdering several times the number of inhabitants now upon the earth , during its short existence , not upwards of four thousand years in any any ...
Page 102
... shewn , though it were to an hundred people , that they did not all immediately agree that it was beautiful , though some might have thought that it fell short of their expectation , or that other things were still finer . I believe no ...
... shewn , though it were to an hundred people , that they did not all immediately agree that it was beautiful , though some might have thought that it fell short of their expectation , or that other things were still finer . I believe no ...
Page 109
... a decollated head of St. John the Baptist was shewn to a Turkish emperor ; he praised many things , but he observed one defect ; he observed that the skin did not not shrink from the wounded part of the neck . ON TASTE . 109.
... a decollated head of St. John the Baptist was shewn to a Turkish emperor ; he praised many things , but he observed one defect ; he observed that the skin did not not shrink from the wounded part of the neck . ON TASTE . 109.
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