The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... tyranny under the name of church government , have been clearly and usefully exposed . We begin to think and to act from reason and from nature alone . This is true of several , but by far the majority is still in the same old state of ...
... tyranny under the name of church government , have been clearly and usefully exposed . We begin to think and to act from reason and from nature alone . This is true of several , but by far the majority is still in the same old state of ...
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... tyranny , and slavery , is requisite to support these societies ; the interest , the ambition , the malice , or the revenge , nay even the whim and caprice of one ruling man among them is enough to arm all the rest , without any private ...
... tyranny , and slavery , is requisite to support these societies ; the interest , the ambition , the malice , or the revenge , nay even the whim and caprice of one ruling man among them is enough to arm all the rest , without any private ...
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... 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 NATURAL SOCIETY . 33.
... 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 NATURAL SOCIETY . 33.
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... tyranny is doubled . There are two courts , and two interests ; both very different from the inte- rests of the people . The favourite knows that the regard of a tyrant is as unconstant and capri- cious as that of a woman ; and ...
... tyranny is doubled . There are two courts , and two interests ; both very different from the inte- rests of the people . The favourite knows that the regard of a tyrant is as unconstant and capri- cious as that of a woman ; and ...
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... tyranny , and grind- ing the people by an oppression , the more severely felt , as it is near them , and exercised by base and subordinate persons . For the gross of the people ; they are considered as a mere herd of cattle ; and really ...
... tyranny , and grind- ing the people by an oppression , the more severely felt , as it is near them , and exercised by base and subordinate persons . For the gross of the people ; they are considered as a mere herd of cattle ; and really ...
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