The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1889 - Great Britain |
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... pretends to be , and was not in reality the domin- ion , through that disgraceful medium , of half a dozen , or perhaps fewer , intriguing politicians , is so mean , so low - minded , so stupid a contrivance , in point of wisdom , as ...
... pretends to be , and was not in reality the domin- ion , through that disgraceful medium , of half a dozen , or perhaps fewer , intriguing politicians , is so mean , so low - minded , so stupid a contrivance , in point of wisdom , as ...
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... pretended orders of a king who , they are perfectly apprised , has no will , and who never can issue a mandate which is not in- tended , in the first operation , or in its certain conse- quences , for his own destruction , your army ...
... pretended orders of a king who , they are perfectly apprised , has no will , and who never can issue a mandate which is not in- tended , in the first operation , or in its certain conse- quences , for his own destruction , your army ...
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... pretended to act , from zeal towards some system of piety and virtue : they gave strong preferences to their own ; and if they drove people from one relig ion , they provided for them another , in which men might take refuge and expect ...
... pretended to act , from zeal towards some system of piety and virtue : they gave strong preferences to their own ; and if they drove people from one relig ion , they provided for them another , in which men might take refuge and expect ...
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... pretended rights of man , —the childish futility of some of their maxims , the gross and stu- pid absurdity and the palpable falsity of others , and the mischievous tendency of all such declarations to the well - being of men and of ...
... pretended rights of man , —the childish futility of some of their maxims , the gross and stu- pid absurdity and the palpable falsity of others , and the mischievous tendency of all such declarations to the well - being of men and of ...
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... pretended to any discoveries . They did not affect to be better Whigs than those were who lived in the days in which principle was put to the test . Some of the Whigs of those days were then living . They were what the Whigs had been at ...
... pretended to any discoveries . They did not affect to be better Whigs than those were who lived in the days in which principle was put to the test . Some of the Whigs of those days were then living . They were what the Whigs had been at ...
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