The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - Great Britain |
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... imagination , but which neither belongs to , nor becomes the sober aspect of truth . I have met with a quotation in Lord Coke's Reports that pleased me very much , though I do not know from whence he has taken it : " Interdum fucata ...
... imagination , but which neither belongs to , nor becomes the sober aspect of truth . I have met with a quotation in Lord Coke's Reports that pleased me very much , though I do not know from whence he has taken it : " Interdum fucata ...
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... imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation it- self ; and that if we were to examine the divine fab- rics by ...
... imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation it- self ; and that if we were to examine the divine fab- rics by ...
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... imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation itself ; and that if we were to examine the divine fabrics by our ...
... imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation itself ; and that if we were to examine the divine fabrics by our ...
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... imaginations promise . In such a discussion , far am I from proposing in the least to reflect on our most wise form of government ; no more than I would , in the freer parts of my philosophical A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 13.
... imaginations promise . In such a discussion , far am I from proposing in the least to reflect on our most wise form of government ; no more than I would , in the freer parts of my philosophical A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 13.
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... imagination with the image of a sort of complex Nero ? And does it not strike you with the greater horror , when you observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , running with a rage of folly into ...
... imagination with the image of a sort of complex Nero ? And does it not strike you with the greater horror , when you observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , running with a rage of folly into ...
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