The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... suffered greatly ; and that , of this immense number , but a very small part could have returned to enjoy the plunder ac- cumulated by the loss of so many of their compa- nions , and the devastation of so considerable a part of the ...
... suffered greatly ; and that , of this immense number , but a very small part could have returned to enjoy the plunder ac- cumulated by the loss of so many of their compa- nions , and the devastation of so considerable a part of the ...
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... suffered ; what shall we judge of countries more extended , and which have waged wars by far more considerable ? Instances of this sort compose the uniform of history . But there have been periods when no less than universal destruction ...
... suffered ; what shall we judge of countries more extended , and which have waged wars by far more considerable ? Instances of this sort compose the uniform of history . But there have been periods when no less than universal destruction ...
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... , was to plunge those who gave it into slavery . Accident restored their liberty , and the same good fortune produced men of uncommon abilities and uncom- mon mon virtues amongst them . But these abilities were suffered NATURAL SOCIETY .
... , was to plunge those who gave it into slavery . Accident restored their liberty , and the same good fortune produced men of uncommon abilities and uncom- mon mon virtues amongst them . But these abilities were suffered NATURAL SOCIETY .
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Edmund Burke. mon virtues amongst them . But these abilities were suffered to be of little service either to their possessors or to the state . Some of these men , for whose sakes alone we read their history , they banished ; others they ...
Edmund Burke. mon virtues amongst them . But these abilities were suffered to be of little service either to their possessors or to the state . Some of these men , for whose sakes alone we read their history , they banished ; others they ...
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... suffer ourselves to imagine , that their senses present to different men different images of things , this scepti- cal proceeding will make every sort of reasoning on every subject vain and frivolous , even that sceptical " reasoning ...
... suffer ourselves to imagine , that their senses present to different men different images of things , this scepti- cal proceeding will make every sort of reasoning on every subject vain and frivolous , even that sceptical " reasoning ...
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