The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1889 - Great Britain |
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... morality ; men who will fix the state upon these bases of morals and politics , which are our old and immemorial , and , I hope , will be our eternal posses- sion . This power , to such men , must come from with out . It may be given to ...
... morality ; men who will fix the state upon these bases of morals and politics , which are our old and immemorial , and , I hope , will be our eternal posses- sion . This power , to such men , must come from with out . It may be given to ...
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... morality . He ought to be fearful of putting into the hands of youth writers indulgent to the peculiarities of their own complexion , lest they should teach the humors of the professor , rather than the principles of the science . He ...
... morality . He ought to be fearful of putting into the hands of youth writers indulgent to the peculiarities of their own complexion , lest they should teach the humors of the professor , rather than the principles of the science . He ...
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... morality . Every- body knows that thero is a great dispute amongst their leaders , which of them is the best ... morals were vi- cious in the extreme , it might appear that in voting the statue they honored only the geometrician . But ...
... morality . Every- body knows that thero is a great dispute amongst their leaders , which of them is the best ... morals were vi- cious in the extreme , it might appear that in voting the statue they honored only the geometrician . But ...
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... moral hero constantly to exhaust the stores of his powerful rhetoric in the expression of universal benevolence , whilst his heart was incapable of harboring one spark of common pa- rental affection . Benevolence to the whole species ...
... moral hero constantly to exhaust the stores of his powerful rhetoric in the expression of universal benevolence , whilst his heart was incapable of harboring one spark of common pa- rental affection . Benevolence to the whole species ...
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... moral constitution of man . Statesmen like your present rulers exist by everything which is spu- rious , fictitious ... morals with the politics of the legislators . Your practical philos- ophers , systematic in everything , have wisely ...
... moral constitution of man . Statesmen like your present rulers exist by everything which is spu- rious , fictitious ... morals with the politics of the legislators . Your practical philos- ophers , systematic in everything , have wisely ...
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