The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1889 - Great Britain |
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... persons who have contrived these things can be made much the better or the worse for anything which can be said to them . They are reason - proof . Here and there , some men , who were at first carried away by wild , good intentions ...
... persons who have contrived these things can be made much the better or the worse for anything which can be said to them . They are reason - proof . Here and there , some men , who were at first carried away by wild , good intentions ...
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... persons entertain other hopes , which I confess appear more specious than those by which at first so many were deluded and disarmed . They flatter themselves that the extreme misery brought upon the people by their folly will at last ...
... persons entertain other hopes , which I confess appear more specious than those by which at first so many were deluded and disarmed . They flatter themselves that the extreme misery brought upon the people by their folly will at last ...
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... persons not to be sus- pected of any sort of Christian superstition , fit col- leagues to the holy prelate of Autun , and bred at the feet of that Gamaliel . We know who it was that drove the money - changers out of the temple . We see ...
... persons not to be sus- pected of any sort of Christian superstition , fit col- leagues to the holy prelate of Autun , and bred at the feet of that Gamaliel . We know who it was that drove the money - changers out of the temple . We see ...
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... person of the most benevolent of their kings . - In my opinion their insolence appears more odious even than their crimes . The horrors of the fifth and sixth of October were less detestable than the festival of the fourteenth of July ...
... person of the most benevolent of their kings . - In my opinion their insolence appears more odious even than their crimes . The horrors of the fifth and sixth of October were less detestable than the festival of the fourteenth of July ...
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... persons of a capacity to serve the French monarchy in the same manner in which Monk served the monarchy of England . The army which Monk commanded had been formed by Cromwell to a perfection of discipline which perhaps has never been ...
... persons of a capacity to serve the French monarchy in the same manner in which Monk served the monarchy of England . The army which Monk commanded had been formed by Cromwell to a perfection of discipline which perhaps has never been ...
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