The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - Great Britain |
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... carried on . Some persons have thought that the advantages of the state of nature ought to have been more fully displayed . This had undoubtedly been a very ample subject for declamation ; but they do not consider the character of the ...
... carried on . Some persons have thought that the advantages of the state of nature ought to have been more fully displayed . This had undoubtedly been a very ample subject for declamation ; but they do not consider the character of the ...
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... reflections to anybody . They were generally melancholy enough ; as those usually are which carry us beyond the mere surface of things ; and which would undoubtedly make the lives of all thinking men extremely miserable , if the.
... reflections to anybody . They were generally melancholy enough ; as those usually are which carry us beyond the mere surface of things ; and which would undoubtedly make the lives of all thinking men extremely miserable , if the.
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... carried on with equal fury . The butcheries of Julius Cæsar alone are calculated by somebody else ; the numbers he has been the means of destroying have been reckoned at 1,200,000 . But to give your lordship an idea that may serve as a ...
... carried on with equal fury . The butcheries of Julius Cæsar alone are calculated by somebody else ; the numbers he has been the means of destroying have been reckoned at 1,200,000 . But to give your lordship an idea that may serve as a ...
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... carrying destruction before them as they advanced , and leaving horrid deserts every way behind them . Vastum ubique si- lentium , secreti colles ; fumantia procul tecta ; nemo ex- ploratoribus obvius , is what Tacitus calls facies ...
... carrying destruction before them as they advanced , and leaving horrid deserts every way behind them . Vastum ubique si- lentium , secreti colles ; fumantia procul tecta ; nemo ex- ploratoribus obvius , is what Tacitus calls facies ...
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... carried us , we may judge by the example of those animals who still follow her laws , and even of those to whom she has given dispositions more fierce , and arms more terible than ever she intended we should use . It is an incon ...
... carried us , we may judge by the example of those animals who still follow her laws , and even of those to whom she has given dispositions more fierce , and arms more terible than ever she intended we should use . It is an incon ...
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