The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... sure of applause ; and this alacrity becomes much greater if he acts upon the offensive , by the impetu- osity that always accompanies an attack , and the unfortunate propensity which mankind have to the finding and exaggerating faults ...
... sure of applause ; and this alacrity becomes much greater if he acts upon the offensive , by the impetu- osity that always accompanies an attack , and the unfortunate propensity which mankind have to the finding and exaggerating faults ...
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... sure I have not of what is actually ascertained in history ; but how much of these butcheries are only expressed in generals , what part of time his- tory has never reached , and what vast spaces of the habitable globe it has not ...
... sure I have not of what is actually ascertained in history ; but how much of these butcheries are only expressed in generals , what part of time his- tory has never reached , and what vast spaces of the habitable globe it has not ...
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... sure to cause terrour and hatred ; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery , cruelty , fraud and tyranny ; and those writers , who D VOL . I. have have faithfully unveiled the mysteries of state- freemasonry , have ...
... sure to cause terrour and hatred ; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery , cruelty , fraud and tyranny ; and those writers , who D VOL . I. have have faithfully unveiled the mysteries of state- freemasonry , have ...
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... sure and uncontested principles , the greatest part of the governments on earth must be concluded tyrannies , impostures , violations of the natural rights of man- kind , and worse than the most disorderly anarchies . How much other ...
... sure and uncontested principles , the greatest part of the governments on earth must be concluded tyrannies , impostures , violations of the natural rights of man- kind , and worse than the most disorderly anarchies . How much other ...
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... Sure I am that they are very great evils . I have done with the forms of government . During the course of my inquiry you may have observed a very material difference between my manner of reasoning and that which is in use amongst the ...
... Sure I am that they are very great evils . I have done with the forms of government . During the course of my inquiry you may have observed a very material difference between my manner of reasoning and that which is in use amongst the ...
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