The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1889 - Great Britain |
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... faction , oppression , and impiety . Mahomet , hid , as for a time he was , in the bottom of the sands of Arabia , had his spirit and character been discovered , would have been an object of precaution to provident minds . What if he ...
... faction , oppression , and impiety . Mahomet , hid , as for a time he was , in the bottom of the sands of Arabia , had his spirit and character been discovered , would have been an object of precaution to provident minds . What if he ...
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... faction . On the contrary , he was per- haps bound to mark his dissent , when the leaders of the party were daily going out of their way to make public declarations in Parliament , which , notwith- standing the purity of their ...
... faction . On the contrary , he was per- haps bound to mark his dissent , when the leaders of the party were daily going out of their way to make public declarations in Parliament , which , notwith- standing the purity of their ...
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Edmund Burke. a wicked faction should become possessed in this country of the same power which their allies in the very next to us have so perfidiously usurped and so outrageously abused ? Is it inhuman to prevent , if possible , the ...
Edmund Burke. a wicked faction should become possessed in this country of the same power which their allies in the very next to us have so perfidiously usurped and so outrageously abused ? Is it inhuman to prevent , if possible , the ...
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... factions at home and abroad . Our complexion is such , that we are palled with enjoyment , and stimulated with hope , that we become less sensible to a long - possessed benefit from the very circumstance that it is become habitual ...
... factions at home and abroad . Our complexion is such , that we are palled with enjoyment , and stimulated with hope , that we become less sensible to a long - possessed benefit from the very circumstance that it is become habitual ...
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... faction considers as an usurpation , as an atrocious violation of the indefeasible rights of man , every other description of government . Take it , or leave it : there is no medium . Let the irrefra- gable doctors fight out their own ...
... faction considers as an usurpation , as an atrocious violation of the indefeasible rights of man , every other description of government . Take it , or leave it : there is no medium . Let the irrefra- gable doctors fight out their own ...
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