The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page 31
... terrible than ever she intended we should use . It is an incontestable truth , that there is more havock made in one year by men of men , than has been made by all the lions , tygers , pan- thers , ounces , leopards , hyenas ...
... terrible than ever she intended we should use . It is an incontestable truth , that there is more havock made in one year by men of men , than has been made by all the lions , tygers , pan- thers , ounces , leopards , hyenas ...
Page 36
... terrible and destructive , that well can be conceived . In a despotism the principal person finds , that , let the want , misery , and indigence of his subjects be what they will , he can yet possess abundantly of every thing to gratify ...
... terrible and destructive , that well can be conceived . In a despotism the principal person finds , that , let the want , misery , and indigence of his subjects be what they will , he can yet possess abundantly of every thing to gratify ...
Page 53
... terrible than the Athenian . There- fore state the matter fairly : the free states never formed , though they were taken altogether , the thousandth part of the habitable globe ; the free- men in these states were never the twentieth ...
... terrible than the Athenian . There- fore state the matter fairly : the free states never formed , though they were taken altogether , the thousandth part of the habitable globe ; the free- men in these states were never the twentieth ...
Page 93
... terrible in its own nature 278 • · XVI . Why Darkness is terrible • 279 XVII . The Effects of Blackness 281 XVIII . The Effects of Blackness moderated XIX . The physical cause of Love XX . Why Smoothness is Beautiful XXI . Sweetness ...
... terrible in its own nature 278 • · XVI . Why Darkness is terrible • 279 XVII . The Effects of Blackness 281 XVIII . The Effects of Blackness moderated XIX . The physical cause of Love XX . Why Smoothness is Beautiful XXI . Sweetness ...
Page 110
... terrible spectacle , which the others could only have represented in their imagi- nation . On the subject of their dislike there is a difference between all these people , arising from the different kinds and degrees of their know ...
... terrible spectacle , which the others could only have represented in their imagi- nation . On the subject of their dislike there is a difference between all these people , arising from the different kinds and degrees of their know ...
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