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... cause; for it is an honest zeal, and in a good cause. I have defended natural religion against a confederacy of atheists and divines. I now plead for natural society against politicians, and for natural reason against all three. When ...
... cause; for it is an honest zeal, and in a good cause. I have defended natural religion against a confederacy of atheists and divines. I now plead for natural society against politicians, and for natural reason against all three. When ...
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Edmund Burke. enter the field, and retain these three persons to defend my cause. My cause, which two farmers from the plough could have decided in half an hour, takes the court twenty years. I am however at the end of my labor, and have ...
Edmund Burke. enter the field, and retain these three persons to defend my cause. My cause, which two farmers from the plough could have decided in half an hour, takes the court twenty years. I am however at the end of my labor, and have ...
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... cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment. And this may arise from a natural weakness of understanding (in ... causes produce different opinions upon everything which is an object of the understanding, without inducing us to suppose ...
... cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment. And this may arise from a natural weakness of understanding (in ... causes produce different opinions upon everything which is an object of the understanding, without inducing us to suppose ...
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... cause) has never, I imagine, its origin from the removal of pain or danger. SECTION IV. OF DELIGHT AND PLEASURE, AS OPPOSED TO EACH OTHER. But shall we therefore say, that the removal of pain or its diminution is always simply painful ...
... cause) has never, I imagine, its origin from the removal of pain or danger. SECTION IV. OF DELIGHT AND PLEASURE, AS OPPOSED TO EACH OTHER. But shall we therefore say, that the removal of pain or its diminution is always simply painful ...
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... causes, which give rise to madness: but this at most can only prove, that the passion of love is capable of producing very ... cause of the difference in character between the passions which regard self-preservation, and those which are ...
... causes, which give rise to madness: but this at most can only prove, that the passion of love is capable of producing very ... cause of the difference in character between the passions which regard self-preservation, and those which are ...
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