The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1889 - Great Britain |
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... called deductio ad absurdum , which even the severity of geometry does not reject , could not be employed at all in legislative discussions . One of our strongest weapons against folly acting with authority would be lost . You know ...
... called deductio ad absurdum , which even the severity of geometry does not reject , could not be employed at all in legislative discussions . One of our strongest weapons against folly acting with authority would be lost . You know ...
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... - sion . This power , to such men , must come from with out . It may be given to you in pity : for surely no nation ever called so pathetically on the compassion of all its neighbors . It may be given by 16 LETTER TO A MEMBER.
... - sion . This power , to such men , must come from with out . It may be given to you in pity : for surely no nation ever called so pathetically on the compassion of all its neighbors . It may be given by 16 LETTER TO A MEMBER.
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... called ) founded on principles of an- archy , and which is in reality a college of armed fanatics , for the propagation of the principles of assas sination , robbery , rebellion , fraud , faction , oppression , and impiety . Mahomet ...
... called ) founded on principles of an- archy , and which is in reality a college of armed fanatics , for the propagation of the principles of assas sination , robbery , rebellion , fraud , faction , oppression , and impiety . Mahomet ...
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... called together the States of his kingdom to reform abuses , to establish a free govern- ment , and to strengthen his throne , -a monarch who , at the very outset , without force , even without solicitation , had given to his people ...
... called together the States of his kingdom to reform abuses , to establish a free govern- ment , and to strengthen his throne , -a monarch who , at the very outset , without force , even without solicitation , had given to his people ...
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... called love has so general and powerful an influence , it makes so much of the entertainment , and indeed so much the occupation , of that part of life which decides the character forever , that the mode and the principles on which it ...
... called love has so general and powerful an influence , it makes so much of the entertainment , and indeed so much the occupation , of that part of life which decides the character forever , that the mode and the principles on which it ...
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