The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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Page vii
... objects of our atten- tion , and have powerfully helped to give a richer substance to all modern literature ' ; and again , he says , ' the book is like some temple by whose structure and design we allow ourselves to be impressed ...
... objects of our atten- tion , and have powerfully helped to give a richer substance to all modern literature ' ; and again , he says , ' the book is like some temple by whose structure and design we allow ourselves to be impressed ...
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... object of your national thanks and praises , you will think me excusable in making its late conduct the subject of my observations . The National Assembly of France has given importance to these gentlemen by adopting them : and they ...
... object of your national thanks and praises , you will think me excusable in making its late conduct the subject of my observations . The National Assembly of France has given importance to these gentlemen by adopting them : and they ...
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... , the House of Commons would reject the most sneaking petition for the most trifling object , under that mode of signature to which you have thrown open MANLY , MORAL , REGULATED LIBERTY 7 the folding doors 6 REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION.
... , the House of Commons would reject the most sneaking petition for the most trifling object , under that mode of signature to which you have thrown open MANLY , MORAL , REGULATED LIBERTY 7 the folding doors 6 REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION.
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... 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 ) give in reality to every political principle its ...
... 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 ) give in reality to every political principle its ...
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... object held up to our imitation . If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circum- stances , in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts . The beginnings of confusion with us in ...
... object held up to our imitation . If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circum- stances , in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts . The beginnings of confusion with us in ...
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