The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... sort ) , the best received authorities were directed to be fol- lowed . The reader , it is trusted , will find that this object , too much disregarded in modern books , has here been kept in view throughout . The quotations which are in ...
... sort ) , the best received authorities were directed to be fol- lowed . The reader , it is trusted , will find that this object , too much disregarded in modern books , has here been kept in view throughout . The quotations which are in ...
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... sort of sullen labour , in which if the author could succeed , he is obliged to own , that nothing could be more fatal to man- kind than his success ? I cannot conceive how this sort of writers pro- pose to compass the designs they ...
... sort of sullen labour , in which if the author could succeed , he is obliged to own , that nothing could be more fatal to man- kind than his success ? I cannot conceive how this sort of writers pro- pose to compass the designs they ...
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... sort of pleasing sur- prise ; they run along with the speaker , charmed and captivated to find such a plentiful harvest of reasoning , where all seemed barren and unpromis- ing . This is the fairy land of philosophy . And it very ...
... sort of pleasing sur- prise ; they run along with the speaker , charmed and captivated to find such a plentiful harvest of reasoning , where all seemed barren and unpromis- ing . This is the fairy land of philosophy . And it very ...
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... sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods , that daz- zles the imagination , but which neither belongs to , nor becomes the sober aspect of truth . I have met with a quotation in Lord Coke's Reports that pleased me very much , though I do ...
... sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods , that daz- zles the imagination , but which neither belongs to , nor becomes the sober aspect of truth . I have met with a quotation in Lord Coke's Reports that pleased me very much , though I do ...
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... sort of state , however constituted . " He ought , " says this great political Doctor , " to " consider peace only as a breathing - time , which " gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes 66 ability to execute military plans . " A ...
... sort of state , however constituted . " He ought , " says this great political Doctor , " to " consider peace only as a breathing - time , which " gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes 66 ability to execute military plans . " A ...
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