The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1889 - Great Britain |
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... politicians , is so mean , so low - minded , so stupid a contrivance , in point of wisdom , as well as so perfectly detestable for its wickedness , that I must always consider the correc- tives which might make it in any degree ...
... politicians , is so mean , so low - minded , so stupid a contrivance , in point of wisdom , as well as so perfectly detestable for its wickedness , that I must always consider the correc- tives which might make it in any degree ...
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... political principles be more effectu- ally exposed than by demonstrating that they lead to consequences directly inconsistent with and subver- sive of the arrangements grounded upon them ? If this kind of demonstration is not permitted ...
... political principles be more effectu- ally exposed than by demonstrating that they lead to consequences directly inconsistent with and subver- sive of the arrangements grounded upon them ? If this kind of demonstration is not permitted ...
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... 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 you in pity : for surely no nation ever called so pathetically on ...
... 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 you in pity : for surely no nation ever called so pathetically on ...
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... political ease and security , though their people were but just emerged from actual famine , and were ready to be plunged into a gulf of penury and beggary , that your philosophic lords chose , with an ostentatious pomp and luxury , to ...
... political ease and security , though their people were but just emerged from actual famine , and were ready to be plunged into a gulf of penury and beggary , that your philosophic lords chose , with an ostentatious pomp and luxury , to ...
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... politics of the legislators . Your practical philos- ophers , systematic in everything , have wisely began at the source . As the relation between parents and children is the first among the elements of vul- gar , natural morality ...
... politics of the legislators . Your practical philos- ophers , systematic in everything , have wisely began at the source . As the relation between parents and children is the first among the elements of vul- gar , natural morality ...
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