The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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Page 7
... human actions , and human concerns , on a simple view of the object , as it stands stripped of every relation , in all the nakedness and solitude of meta- physical abstraction . Circumstances ( which with some gentlemen pass for nothing ) ...
... human actions , and human concerns , on a simple view of the object , as it stands stripped of every relation , in all the nakedness and solitude of meta- physical abstraction . Circumstances ( which with some gentlemen pass for nothing ) ...
Page 36
... human race , the whole , at one time , is never old , or middle - aged , or young , but , in a condition of unchange- able constancy , moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay , fall , renovation , and progression . Thus ...
... human race , the whole , at one time , is never old , or middle - aged , or young , but , in a condition of unchange- able constancy , moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay , fall , renovation , and progression . Thus ...
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... human and divine sacrificed to the idol of public credit , and national bankruptcy the consequence ; and , to crown all , the paper securities of new , precarious , tottering power , the discredited paper securities of impoverished ...
... human and divine sacrificed to the idol of public credit , and national bankruptcy the consequence ; and , to crown all , the paper securities of new , precarious , tottering power , the discredited paper securities of impoverished ...
Page 49
... human affairs . ་ Having considered the composition of the third estate as it stood in its original frame , I took a view of the re- presentatives of the clergy . There too it appeared that full as little regard was had to the general ...
... human affairs . ་ Having considered the composition of the third estate as it stood in its original frame , I took a view of the re- presentatives of the clergy . There too it appeared that full as little regard was had to the general ...
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... human place and honour . Woe to the country which would madly and impiously reject the service of the talents and virtues , civil , military , or religious , that are given to grace and to serve it ; and would condemn to obscurity ...
... human place and honour . Woe to the country which would madly and impiously reject the service of the talents and virtues , civil , military , or religious , that are given to grace and to serve it ; and would condemn to obscurity ...
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