The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... Species of Ar- tificial Society A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beauti- ful ; with an Introductory Discourse concerning Taste PAGE V xxiii 81 1 1 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER . THE late Mr. Burke , A ...
... Species of Ar- tificial Society A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beauti- ful ; with an Introductory Discourse concerning Taste PAGE V xxiii 81 1 1 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER . THE late Mr. Burke , A ...
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... SPECIES OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETY . IN A LETTER TO LORD * ** BY A LATE NOBLE WRITER . 1756 . VOL . I. B PREFACE . BE EFORE the philosophical works of Lord Bo- A Vindication of Natural Society: or, View of the Miseries and Evils arising to ...
... SPECIES OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETY . IN A LETTER TO LORD * ** BY A LATE NOBLE WRITER . 1756 . VOL . I. B PREFACE . BE EFORE the philosophical works of Lord Bo- A Vindication of Natural Society: or, View of the Miseries and Evils arising to ...
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... species , un- provoked but by his ambition , without any motives but pride , cruelty , and madness , and without any benefit to himself ; ( for Justin expressly tells us he did not maintain his conquests ) but solely to make so many ...
... species , un- provoked but by his ambition , without any motives but pride , cruelty , and madness , and without any benefit to himself ; ( for Justin expressly tells us he did not maintain his conquests ) but solely to make so many ...
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... species caused in both , really astonishes beyond expression , when it is nakedly considered , and those matters which are apt to divert our attention from it , the characters , actions , and designs of the persons concerned , are not ...
... species caused in both , really astonishes beyond expression , when it is nakedly considered , and those matters which are apt to divert our attention from it , the characters , actions , and designs of the persons concerned , are not ...
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... species . I shall draw to a conclusion of this part , by making a general calculation of the whole . I think I have actually mentioned above thirty - six millions . I have not particularized any more . don't pretend to exactness ...
... species . I shall draw to a conclusion of this part , by making a general calculation of the whole . I think I have actually mentioned above thirty - six millions . I have not particularized any more . don't pretend to exactness ...
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